:Albert Gower-Rees

{{Short description|Canadian Anglican priest}}

{{Infobox person

| name = Albert Gower-Rees

| birth_date = 1880

| birth_place = Carmarthenshire

| death_date = 1956

| occupation = Anglican priest

}}

{{Portal|Christianity}} Albert Philip Gower-Rees (1880–1956) [http://cif1stcavalry.ca/wp/?page_id=12 Corps of Imperial Frontiersman] was an Anglican priest[https://militaryandfamilyhistory.blog/2016/01/02/remembering-rev-a-p-gower-rees-mc-the-football-parson/ Remembering Rev. A.P. Gower-Rees MC: the “Football Parson”] who held senior leadership positions in Canada during the mid 20th Century.

File:Grave of A.P. Gower-Rees, Harrogate Cemetery.jpg

Born in Carmarthenshire, Gower-Rees was educated at Christ's College, Cambridge. He was ordained deacon in 1905; and priest in 1906.Crockford's Clerical Directory 1908 p573 London, Horace Cox, 1908 He served curacies in Walkley and Doncaster. He was Vicar of St James, Bolton, Bradford from 1912 to 1915; then a Chaplain to the Forces from 1915 to 1919. He was awarded the Military Cross in 1917 and wounded by a shell splinter the same year.{{cite news|title=Yorkshire Evening Post|date=6 July 1917}}

After the war he returned to Bradford, staying until 1927, when he was appointed the Rector of St George, Montreal. He was Archdeacon of St Andrews, Quebec from 1933 to 1940 and Archdeacon of Montreal from 1940 until his death in 1956. During World War II he was chaplain to the Canadian Navy.

He died on holiday in Quebec shortly before he was due to retire.{{cite news|title=Ottawa Journal|date=4 September 1956}} He had married Sarah Atkinson-Jowett in 1911; they had 3 daughters.