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Sir Richard Lodowick Edward Montagu Rees, 2nd Baronet (4 April 1900 – 24 July 1970) was a British diplomat, writer, humanitarian, and painter. Rees was the son of Sir John Rees, 1st Baronet and his wife Mary Catherine Dormer. His sister was the pilot Rosemary Rees, Lady du Cros, MBE. He was educated at West Downs School, Eton and Trinity ...
Richard Rees. Richard Lodowick Edward Montagu Rees, the son of Sir John Rees and Mary Catherine Dormer, was born on 4th April, 1900. Rees was educated at Eton College and Trinity College. He later recalled: "Without intending any disrespect to the great university, or to Eton, where I had studied from 1914 to 1918, or to my parents, I attribute ...
Richard Rees. Richard Rees may refer to: Sir Richard Rees, 2nd Baronet (1900–1970), British diplomat, writer, humanitarian, and painter. Richard Rees (politician) (1859–1935), Australian politician. Richard Rees (rugby union) (born 1971), Welsh rugby union winger. Richie Rees (born 1983), Welsh rugby union scrum-half.
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Sir Richard Lodowick Edward Montagu Rees, 2nd Baronet (4 April 1900 – 24 July 1970) was a British diplomat, writer, humanitarian, and painter.
Rees was the son of Sir John Rees, 1st Baronet and his wife Mary Catherine Dormer. His sister was the pilot Rosemary Rees, Lady du Cros, MBE. He was educated at West Downs School, Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge. His father, who had been an administrator in British India and a Liberal politician, died in 1922 and he inherited the baronetcy. He was for a while an attache at the British Embassy in Berlin. In 1925 he became a lecturer at the Worker's Educational Association in London, and also acted as Treasurer there. John Middleton Murry appointed him editor of Adelphi in 1930, where he provided encouragement to George Orwell among others. He was the inspiration for the wealthy Ravelston, publisher of the socialist magazine Antichrist, in Orwell's Keep the Aspidistra Flying.[citation needed]
In the Spanish Civil War he drove ambulances in Catalonia. He initially worked with the National Joint Committee for Spanish Relief (NJC) and then the Quakers. Rees worked closely with the NJC, travelling to Mexico in June 1939 as the NJC's delegate to meet the SS Sinaia an oceanliner co-chartered by the NJC to send sixteen hundred Spanish refugees from the camps in France to resettle in Mexico.
During World War II, Rees served in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve (RNVR). His service included an attachment to the French Navy from 1943, serving as a Liaison Officer (LO) on board ships of the newly-integrated Mediterranean Fleet, with whom he was awarded the Croix de Guerre.
•Brave Men: A study of D H Lawrence and Simone Weil (Victor Gollancz, London, 1958)
•For Love or Money (Secker & Warburg, London, 1960)
•George Orwell: Fugitive from the Camp of Victory (Secker & Warburg, London, 1961)
•A Theory of my Time (Secker & Warburg, London, 1963)
•Simone Weil: A Sketch for a Portrait (Oxford University Press, London, 1966)
Edited with John Middleton Murry
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Roger Rees (5 May 1944 – 10 July 2015) was a Welsh actor and director, widely known for his stage work. He won an Olivier Award and a Tony Award for his performance as the lead in The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby. He also received Obie Awards for his role in The End of the Day and as co-director of Peter and the Starcatcher.
Inherited father's baronetcy in 1922, becoming a 'Sir'. Attaché at British embassy in Berlin. Joined Labour Party in 1924 and in following year became a lecturer with the Workers' Educational Association. Ambulance driver in Spain with the British Medical Unit and Quakers.
Richard Rees 1900–1970 Richard Lodowick Edward Montagu Rees (1900–1970), 2nd Bt, Friend and Literary Executor of George Orwell
