Sir John David Rees, 1st Baronet, KCIE, CVO, MP (16 December 1854 – 2 June 1922)[1] was a colonial administrator in British India and subsequently a Member of Parliament at Westminster.
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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 also unsuccessfully contested Kilmarnock Burghs at a by-election in 1911 [2]
He married Mary Catherine Dormer in 1891, and was created a baronet on 8 May 1919.
| Parliament of the United Kingdom | ||
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| Preceded by Edward Pryce-Jones |
Member of Parliament for Montgomery 1906 – December 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 | ||
| New creation | Baronet (of Aylward's Chase) 1919–1922 |
Succeeded by Richard Rees |