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Sir John David Rees, 1st Baronet, KCIE, CVO, MP (16 December 1854 – 2 June 1922) was a colonial administrator in British India and subsequently a Member of Parliament at Westminster. ==Biography== 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.〔Debrett's House of Commons and the Judicial Bench, 1916〕 He married Mary Catherine Dormer in 1891, and was created a baronet on 8 May 1919. Lady Rees was a correspondent of George Orwell.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://digitool-b.lib.ucl.ac.uk:8881/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=1064457&local_base=GEN01 )〕 Their daughter Rosemary, later Lady du Cros, was an aviator.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person/mp136417/rosemary-theresa-nee-rees-lady-du-cros )〕 He was succeeded in the baronetcy by his son, Richard Rees, the inspiration for Ravelston in Orwell's Keep The Aspidistra Flying. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「John David Rees」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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