John David Rees

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Sir John David Rees, KCIE, CVO, MP (16 December 1854 – 2 June 1922) was a colonial administrator in British India and subsequently a Member of Parliament at Westminster. He was educated at Cheltenham College and joined the Indian Civil Service in 1875. He served mostly in the south of India where he was Under-Secretary in the Madras Government, and later the British Resident in Travancore and Cochin. He also served as an Additional Member of the Governor-General's Council in the 1890s.

In 1901, Rees retired from the Civil Service. He was an active proponent of the Raj and wrote a number of books on British India. The Real India, first published in 1908, went through a number of editions. In 1902, he had even contributed a number of columns to the Times Literary Supplement on Indian matters. He served two terms as Member of Parliament (MP): from 1906 to 1910 as the Liberal MP for Montgomery constituency, and from 1912 to 1922 as the Unionist MP for Nottingham East.

He married Mary Catherine Dormer in 1891, and was created a baronet on 8 May 1919.

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Tours in India
The Mahommedans
The Real India
Modern India
Current Political Problems

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Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Edward Pryce-Jones	Member of Parliament for Montgomery 1906–Dec. 1910	Succeeded by Edward Pryce-Jones
Preceded by James Archibald Morrison	Member of Parliament for Nottingham East 1912–1922	Succeeded by John Plowright Houfton
Baronetage of the United Kingdom
Preceded by New creation	Baronet (of Aylward's Chase) 1919-1922	Succeeded by Richard Rees