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Brinley Roderick Rees (27 December 1919 – 21 October 2004)

papyri; a later publication was devoted to the life and letters of Pelagius
.

Life and career

Rees was born on 27 December 1919.

Cardiff High School for Boys, where he was an assistant master between 1947 and 1948.[3][4]

Rees then started his long career in higher education. In 1948, he became lecturer in classics at the

Welsh Supernumerary Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford, in 1975–1976 by virtue of his position as Principal of St David's.[4]

Rees' time at Lampeter came to an end when he retired in 1980, but his involvement in higher education had not come to an end, for he was vice-president of the University of Wales College, Cardiff, between 1986 and 1988.[4]

In 1981, the

LLD[4]
in recognition of his service to the colleges at Lampeter, Cardiff and Aberystwyth.

In 1951 Rees married Zena Muriel Stella Mayall; they had two sons.[3][4] Rees died on 21 October 2004.[4]

Publications

  • Ieuan Gwynedd: Detholiad o'i Ryddiaith, 1957
  • The Merton Papyri, Vol. II (with H. I. Bell and J. W. B. Barns), 1959[6]
  • The Use of Greek, 1961[7]
  • Papyri from Hermopolis and other Byzantine Documents, 1964[6]
  • Lampas: a new approach to Greek (with M. E. Jervis), 1970
  • Classics: an outline for intending students, 1970
  • Aristotle’s Theory and Milton’s Practice, 1972[8]
  • Strength in What Remains, 1980
  • Pelagius: A Reluctant Heretic, 1988, Boydell Press
    ISBN 0851155030[9][10][11][12][13]
  • The Letters of Pelagius and his Followers, 1991[12][14]
  • Pelagius: life and letters, 1998

References

  1. ^ a b Ceri Davies. "Rees, Brinley Roderick (1919–2004), classical scholar, educationist and university college principal". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 7 June 2019.
  2. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/75837. (Subscription or UK public library membership
    required.)
  3. ^ a b c d Levens, R.G.C., ed. (1964). Merton College Register 1900–1964. Oxford: Basil Blackwell. p. 296.
  4. ^ a b c d e f g h REES, Prof. Brinley Roderick (online ed.). Bloomsbury Publishing plc; online edn, Oxford University Press. April 2014. Retrieved 25 February 2016.
  5. ^ "Brinley Roderick Rees (1919–2004), Principal of St David's University College (1975–1980)". Art UK. The Public Catalogue Foundation. Retrieved 25 February 2016.
  6. ^ a b Thomas, J. David. "In memoriam Brinley (Bryn) Roderick REES 1919–2004". Retrieved 25 February 2016.
  7. ISBN 0708301975
    .
  8. ^ Rees, Brinley Roderick (1972). Aristotle's theory and Milton's practice – Samson Agonistes: an inaugural lecture delivered in the University of Birmingham on 4th November 1971. University of Birmingham.
  9. S2CID 162877047
    .
  10. S2CID 170993186
    .
  11. doi:10.1093/jts/40.2.623
    .
  12. ^
    doi:10.5840/augstudies19952619
    .
  13. ^ Boeft, J den. Vigiliae Christianae; Amsterdam Vol. 45, (Jan 1, 1991): 87.
  14. JSTOR 1584173
    .
Academic offices
Preceded by
John Roland Lloyd Thomas
Principal of St David's University College

1975–1980 		Succeeded by
Brian Robert Morris
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