Peter Rees, Baron Rees

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QC
Peter Rees
Chief Secretary to the Treasury
In office
11 June 1983 – 2 September 1985
Prime MinisterMargaret Thatcher
Preceded byLeon Brittan
Succeeded byJohn MacGregor
Member of Parliament
for Dover
In office
18 June 1970 – 18 May 1987
Preceded byDavid Ennals
Succeeded byDavid Shaw
Personal details
Born
Peter Wynford Innes Rees

(1926-12-09)9 December 1926
Lambeth, London, England
Political partyConservative
Spouse
Anthea Wendell
​
(m. 1969)​
Alma mater

Peter Wynford Innes Rees, Baron Rees,

Dover and Deal from 1974 to 1983 and MP for Dover from 1970 to 1974 and 1983 to 1987. He was Chief Secretary to the Treasury from 1983 until 1985. He was created a life peer as Baron Rees, of Goytre, in 1987.[1][2]

Early life and education

Rees was born in

QC in 1969.[3]

Political career

At the 1964 general election Rees stood as the Conservative candidate in the safe Labour seat of Abertillery, where he won only 14% of the votes, against the 86% won by the only other candidate, Labour's Reverend Llewellyn Williams.[4] When Williams died in 1965, Rees was the Conservative candidate in the consequent by-election, losing by a similarly large margin.

At the 1966 election, he stood in the more promising Labour-held seat of Liverpool West Derby, but lost again.

He finally entered Parliament at the 1970 general election, when he won in Dover, with a majority of 1,649 over sitting Labour MP David Ennals.

Parliament

In Edward Heath's government, he served from 1972 to 1973 as Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Solicitor General, Michael Havers.

In 1979, when the Conservative Party entered government under

Privy Counsellor
the same year.

Unlike most other Chief Secretaries to the Treasury, Peter Rees never went further within the Cabinet, leaving the post in the September 1985 cabinet reshuffle. He retired from Parliament at the 1987 general election, aged 61, and on 16 November 1987 was created a life peer as Baron Rees, of Goytre in the County of Gwent[5] and sat in the House of Lords as a Conservative.

Personal life

In 1969, he married Anthea Peronelle Wendell, daughter of Major Hugh John Maxwell-Hyslop, and former wife of Major Jack Wendell. They had no children.

Serena Wendell (later the second wife of John Crichton-Stuart, 7th Marquess of Bute).[6]

Rees died of a spontaneous subarachnoid haemorrhage at St Thomas' Hospital, London, following a short illness. He was buried at St Peter's Church, Goytre.[3]

Arms

Coat of arms of Peter Rees, Baron Rees
Crest
Upon a chapeau turned up ermines a peacock holding in its beak an oak sprig proper.
Escutcheon
Argent two chevrons ermines between three ravens proper.
Supporters
Two Bengal tigers rampant, the Dexter on a grassy mount growing therefrom two tea-plant flowers, and the Sinister on a like mount growing therefrom as many lotus flowers all proper.
Motto
Si Fueris Felix Multos Numerabis Amices [7]

References

  1. ^ Pearce, Edward (3 December 2008). "Obituary: Lord Rees". The Guardian. Retrieved 8 September 2016.
  2. ^ "Lord Rees". The Telegraph. London. 2 December 2008. Retrieved 8 September 2016.
  3. ^
    ISBN 9780199671540
    . Retrieved 8 September 2016.
  4. ^ "Political Science Resources: links to UK and US politics". Retrieved 8 September 2016.
  5. ^ "No. 51127". The London Gazette. 23 November 1987. p. 14391.
  6. ^ Fox, Chloe (15 January 2019). "Bonnie in Clyde: Meet the Marchioness of Bute". Tatler. Retrieved 23 November 2020.
  7. ^ Debrett's Peerage. 2003. p. 1339.

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1970–1987 		Succeeded by
David Shaw
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1983–1985 		Succeeded by
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