Dorothy Rees
DBE | |
|---|---|
| Member of Parliament for Barry | |
| In office 23 February 1950 – 24 October 1951 | |
| Preceded by | New constituency |
| Succeeded by | Raymond Gower |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Dorothy Mary Jones 29 July 1898 |
| Died | 20 August 1987 (aged 89) |
| Political party | Labour |
Dame Dorothy Mary Rees DBE (née Jones; 29 July 1898 – 20 August 1987) was a Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom, and was briefly a Member of Parliament (MP).[1][2][3]
Career
Rees was a schoolteacher in
Minister of National Insurance
.
She served as a member of the National advisory committee for National Insurance, the Joint Education Committee for Wales, Welsh Teaching Hospitals Board, and was awarded a CBE in 1964, and a DBE in 1975.
References
- ^ Dictionary of Welsh Biography REES, DOROTHY MARY (1898-1987) [1] adalwyd 10 Ionawr 2016
- ^ ‘REES, Dame Dorothy (Mary)’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2016; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014 ; online edn, April 2014 adalwyd 10 Ionawr 2016
- ^ Chris Williams, ‘Rees , Dame Dorothy Mary (1898–1987)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2011 adalwyd 10 Ionawr 2016
- "Women MPs Elected 1950s". Centre for Advancement of Women in Politics. Retrieved 15 December 2006.
- Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs
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