Frederick Rees
{{Short description|Welsh academic (1883–1967)}}
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Sir James Frederick Rees (13 December 1883 – 7 January 1967), known as Frederick Rees, was a Welsh historian and academic born in Milford Haven, who specialised in economic history and the history of Wales. From 1929 to 1949, he was Principal of University College of South Wales and Monmouthshire. He was additionally Vice-Chancellor of the University of Wales from 1935 to 1937 and also from 1944 to 1946. He had previously lectured at University College, Bangor, Queen's University Belfast, the University of Edinburgh, and the University of Birmingham.'REES, Sir (James) Frederick', Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2016; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014; online edn, April 2014 [http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whowaswho/U55252 accessed 4 July 2017]{{cite web|last1=Jones|first1=Evan David|title=REES, Sir JAMES FREDERICK (1883 - 1967)|url=https://biography.wales/article/s2-REES-FRE-1883|website=Dictionary of Welsh Biography|publisher=National Library of Wales|accessdate=3 July 2017|date=2001}}{{cite news|title=Sir Frederick Rees|work=The Times|issue=56835|date=10 January 1967|page=12}} He served as High Sheriff of Pembrokeshire for 1955.{{London Gazette |issue= 40433 |date= 18 March 1955 |page= 1609}}
Honours
In the 1945 New Year Honours, Rees was appointed a Knight Bachelor, and thereby granted the title sir, in recognition of his service as Principal of the University College of South Wales and Monmouthshire, Cardiff and as Vice-Chancellor of the University of Wales.{{London Gazette |issue= 36866 |date= 29 December 1944 |pages= 1–2 |supp= y}} He was knighted by King George VI during a ceremony at Buckingham Palace.{{London Gazette |issue= 37065 |date= 4 May 1945 |page= 2355}}
Selected works
- {{cite book |author=J. F. Rees |title=A Social & Industrial History of England, 1815-1918 |url=https://archive.org/details/socialindustrial00reesrich |year=1920 |publisher=Methuen & Company Limited |location=London}}
- {{cite book |author=J. F. Rees |author-mask=—— |title=A Short Fiscal and Financial History of England, 1815-1918 |url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.90719 |year=1921 |publisher=Methuen & Company Limited |location=London}}
- {{cite book |author=J. F. Rees |author-mask=—— |title=A Survey of Economic Development: With Special Reference to Great Britain |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sElBAAAAIAAJ |year=1933 |publisher=Sir I. Pitman & Sons, Limited |location=London}}
- {{cite book |author=J. F. Rees |author-mask=—— |title=The Story of Milford: (Milford Haven) |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3moZAAAAIAAJ |year=1954 |publisher=University of Wales Press |location=Cardiff}}
- {{cite book |author=J. F. Rees |author-mask=—— |title=The Problem of Wales: And Other Essays |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mS8jAAAAMAAJ |year=1963 |publisher=University of Wales Press |location=Cardiff |isbn=978-0708300695}}
- {{cite book |last1=Rees |first1=J.F. |author-mask=—— |title=Studies in Welsh History Collected papers, lectures and reviews |date=1965 |publisher=University of Wales Press |location=Cardiff |edition=Second}}
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Category:People from Milford Haven
Category:20th-century Welsh historians
Category:Academics of Bangor University
Category:Academics of Queen's University Belfast
Category:Academics of the University of Edinburgh
Category:Academics of the University of Birmingham
Category:Academics of Cardiff University
Category:Vice-chancellors of the University of Wales