Dame Dorothy Mary Rees (; 29 July 189820 August 1987) was a Labour Party politician in the

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, and was briefly a

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Career

Rees was a schoolteacher in

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and a member of

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Borough Council, and an

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. At the 1950 general election, she was elected as MP for the constituency of

, but lost her seat at the 1951 general election to the Conservative

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. In Parliament, she served as

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(PPS) to Edith Summerskill, the Minister of National Insurance. She served as a member of the National advisory committee for National Insurance, the Joint Education Committee for Wales, Welsh Teaching Hospitals Board, and was awarded a

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in 1964, and a DBE in 1975.

References

* * __FORCETOC__ 1898 births 1987 deaths Welsh schoolteachers Dames Commander of the Order of the British Empire Welsh Labour MPs Female members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Welsh constituencies People from Glamorgan UK MPs 1950–1951 Barry, Vale of Glamorgan Members of Glamorgan County Council 20th-century British women politicians Women councillors in Wales {{Wales-Labour-UK-MP-stub