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<div id="mw-content-text" class="mw-body-content"><div class="mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output" lang="en" dir="ltr"><div class="shortdescription nomobile noexcerpt noprint searchaux" style="display:none">British politician and barrister (1926–2008)</div> <p class="mw-empty-elt"> </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1257001546">.mw-parser-output .infobox-subbox{padding:0;border:none;margin:-3px;width:auto;min-width:100%;font-size:100%;clear:none;float:none;background-color:transparent}.mw-parser-output .infobox-3cols-child{margin:auto}.mw-parser-output .infobox .navbar{font-size:100%}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme)>div:not(.notheme)[style]{background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme) 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#202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;"><a href="/wiki/Chief_Secretary_to_the_Treasury" title="Chief Secretary to the Treasury">Chief Secretary to the Treasury</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />11 June 1983 – 2 September 1985</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Prime Minister</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Margaret_Thatcher" title="Margaret Thatcher">Margaret Thatcher</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Leon_Brittan" title="Leon Brittan">Leon Brittan</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td 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class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/David_Ennals,_Baron_Ennals" title="David Ennals, Baron Ennals">David Ennals</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/David_Shaw_(British_politician)" title="David Shaw (British politician)">David Shaw</a></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender">Personal details</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><div style="display:inline" class="nickname">Peter Wynford Innes Rees</div><br /><span style="display:none">(<span class="bday">1926-12-09</span>)</span>9 December 1926<br /><a href="/wiki/Camberley,_Surrey" class="mw-redirect" title="Camberley, Surrey">Camberley, Surrey</a>, England</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Died</th><td class="infobox-data">30 November 2008<span style="display:none">(2008-11-30)</span> (aged 81)<br /><a href="/wiki/Lambeth,_London" class="mw-redirect" title="Lambeth, London">Lambeth, London</a>, England</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Political party</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Spouse</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1151524712">.mw-parser-output .marriage-line-margin2px{line-height:0;margin-bottom:-2px}.mw-parser-output .marriage-line-margin3px{line-height:0;margin-bottom:-3px}.mw-parser-output .marriage-display-ws{display:inline;white-space:nowrap}</style> <div class="marriage-display-ws"><div style="display:inline-block;line-height:normal;">Anthea Wendell</div> <div style="display:inline-block;"></div>(<abbr title="married">m.</abbr> 1969)<wbr /></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Alma_mater" title="Alma mater">Alma mater</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/Christ_Church,_Oxford" title="Christ Church, Oxford">Christ Church, Oxford</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Inner_Temple" title="Inner Temple">Inner Temple</a></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-below" style="border-top: 1px solid right;"><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Peter Wynford Innes Rees, Baron Rees</b>, <span class="nobold noexcerpt nowraplinks" style="font-size:;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><a href="/wiki/Privy_Council_(United_Kingdom)" title="Privy Council (United Kingdom)">PC</a></span>, <span style="font-size: 100%;"><a href="/wiki/Queen%27s_Counsel" class="mw-redirect" title="Queen's Counsel">QC</a></span></span> (9 December 1926 – 30 November 2008) was a British <a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> politician and <a href="/wiki/Barrister" title="Barrister">barrister</a>. He was <a href="/wiki/Member_of_Parliament_(United_Kingdom)" title="Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)">Member of Parliament</a> (MP) for <a href="/wiki/Dover_and_Deal_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Dover and Deal (UK Parliament constituency)">Dover and Deal</a> from 1974 to 1983 and MP for <a href="/wiki/Dover_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" class="mw-redirect" title="Dover (UK Parliament constituency)">Dover</a> from 1970 to 1974 and 1983 to 1987. He was <a href="/wiki/Chief_Secretary_to_the_Treasury" title="Chief Secretary to the Treasury">Chief Secretary to the Treasury</a> from 1983 until 1985. He was created a life peer as Baron Rees, of Goytre, in 1987.<sup id="cite_ref-guardian_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-guardian-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-telegraph_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-telegraph-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life_and_education">Early life and education</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Peter_Rees,_Baron_Rees&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life and education"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Rees was born in <a href="/wiki/Camberley" title="Camberley">Camberley</a>, <a href="/wiki/Surrey" title="Surrey">Surrey</a>, the only son of Major-General <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Wynford_Rees" title="Thomas Wynford Rees">Thomas Wynford Rees</a> of the India Army, and Agatha Rosalie (<i>née</i> Innes). His maternal grandfather was Sir <a href="/wiki/Charles_Alexander_Innes" title="Charles Alexander Innes">Charles Alexander Innes</a>, Governor of <a href="/wiki/British_rule_in_Burma" title="British rule in Burma">British Burma</a> from 1927 to 1932. He was educated at <a href="/wiki/Stowe_School" title="Stowe School">Stowe School</a>. He joined the <a href="/wiki/Scots_Guards" title="Scots Guards">Scots Guards</a> in 1945 and three years later continued his education at <a href="/wiki/Christ_Church,_Oxford" title="Christ Church, Oxford">Christ Church, Oxford</a>. In 1953, he was called to the bar by the <a href="/wiki/Inner_Temple" title="Inner Temple">Inner Temple</a>. He became a <a href="/wiki/Queen%27s_Counsel" class="mw-redirect" title="Queen's Counsel">QC</a> in 1969.<sup id="cite_ref-odnb_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-odnb-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Political_career">Political career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Peter_Rees,_Baron_Rees&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Political career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>At the <a href="/wiki/1964_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1964 United Kingdom general election">1964 general election</a> Rees stood as the Conservative candidate in the safe <a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour</a> seat of <a href="/wiki/Abertillery_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Abertillery (UK Parliament constituency)">Abertillery</a>, where he won only 14% of the votes, against the 86% won by the only other candidate, Labour's Reverend <a href="/wiki/Llywelyn_Williams" title="Llywelyn Williams">Llewellyn Williams</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> When Williams died in 1965, Rees was the Conservative candidate in <a href="/wiki/1965_Abertillery_by-election" title="1965 Abertillery by-election">the consequent by-election</a>, losing by a similarly large margin. </p><p>At the <a href="/wiki/1966_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1966 United Kingdom general election">1966 election</a>, he stood in the more promising Labour-held seat of <a href="/wiki/Liverpool_West_Derby_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Liverpool West Derby (UK Parliament constituency)">Liverpool West Derby</a>, but lost again. </p><p>He finally entered <a href="/wiki/Parliament_of_the_United_Kingdom" title="Parliament of the United Kingdom">Parliament</a> at the <a href="/wiki/1970_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1970 United Kingdom general election">1970 general election</a>, when he won in <a href="/wiki/Dover_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" class="mw-redirect" title="Dover (UK Parliament constituency)">Dover</a>, with a majority of 1,649 over sitting Labour MP <a href="/wiki/David_Ennals,_Baron_Ennals" title="David Ennals, Baron Ennals">David Ennals</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Parliament">Parliament</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Peter_Rees,_Baron_Rees&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Parliament"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In <a href="/wiki/Edward_Heath" title="Edward Heath">Edward Heath</a>'s government, he served from 1972 to 1973 as <a href="/wiki/Parliamentary_Private_Secretary" class="mw-redirect" title="Parliamentary Private Secretary">Parliamentary Private Secretary</a> to the <a href="/wiki/Solicitor_General_for_England_and_Wales" title="Solicitor General for England and Wales">Solicitor General</a>, <a href="/wiki/Michael_Havers,_Baron_Havers" title="Michael Havers, Baron Havers">Michael Havers</a>. </p><p>In 1979, when the Conservative Party entered government under <a href="/wiki/Margaret_Thatcher" title="Margaret Thatcher">Margaret Thatcher</a>, he became <a href="/wiki/Minister_of_State" title="Minister of State">Minister of State</a> at the <a href="/wiki/HM_Treasury" title="HM Treasury">Treasury</a>, working to the <a href="/wiki/Chancellor_of_the_Exchequer" title="Chancellor of the Exchequer">Chancellor of the Exchequer</a>, <a href="/wiki/Geoffrey_Howe" title="Geoffrey Howe">Geoffrey Howe</a>, before becoming Minister for Trade in 1981. After the 1983 <a href="/wiki/1983_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1983 United Kingdom general election">UK general election</a> he was appointed to the <a href="/wiki/Cabinet_(government)" title="Cabinet (government)">cabinet</a> as <a href="/wiki/Chief_Secretary_to_the_Treasury" title="Chief Secretary to the Treasury">Chief Secretary to the Treasury</a>, working to the new <a href="/wiki/Chancellor_of_the_Exchequer" title="Chancellor of the Exchequer">Chancellor of the Exchequer</a>, <a href="/wiki/Nigel_Lawson" title="Nigel Lawson">Nigel Lawson</a>. He was made <a href="/wiki/Privy_Council_of_the_United_Kingdom" class="mw-redirect" title="Privy Council of the United Kingdom">Privy Counsellor</a> the same year. </p><p>Unlike most other Chief Secretaries to the Treasury, Peter Rees never went further within the Cabinet, leaving the post in the September 1985 cabinet reshuffle. He retired from Parliament at the <a href="/wiki/1987_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1987 United Kingdom general election">1987 general election</a>, aged 61, and on 16 November 1987 was created a <a href="/wiki/Life_peer" title="Life peer">life peer</a> as <b>Baron Rees</b>, of Goytre in the County of <a href="/wiki/Gwent_(county)" title="Gwent (county)">Gwent</a><sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and sat in the <a href="/wiki/House_of_Lords" title="House of Lords">House of Lords</a> as a Conservative. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Personal_life">Personal life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Peter_Rees,_Baron_Rees&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Personal life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1969, he married Anthea Peronelle Wendell, daughter of Major Hugh John Maxwell-Hyslop, and former wife of Major Jack Wendell. They had no children.<sup id="cite_ref-odnb_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-odnb-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Through this marriage, he was the stepfather of Anthea's daughters from her first marriage to Jac Wendell: Francesca and <a href="/wiki/Serena_Wendell" class="mw-redirect" title="Serena Wendell">Serena Wendell</a> (later the second wife of <a href="/wiki/John_Crichton-Stuart,_7th_Marquess_of_Bute" title="John Crichton-Stuart, 7th Marquess of Bute">John Crichton-Stuart, 7th Marquess of Bute</a>).<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Rees died of a spontaneous <a href="/wiki/Subarachnoid_hemorrhage" title="Subarachnoid hemorrhage">subarachnoid haemorrhage</a> at <a href="/wiki/St_Thomas%27_Hospital" title="St Thomas' Hospital">St Thomas' Hospital</a>, London, following a short illness. He was buried at St Peter's Church, <a href="/wiki/Goytre" title="Goytre">Goytre</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-odnb_3-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-odnb-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Arms">Arms</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Peter_Rees,_Baron_Rees&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Arms"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable mw-collapsible" style="max-width: 100%"> <caption class="nowrap">Coat of arms of Peter Rees, Baron Rees </caption> <tbody><tr> <td style="width: 220px;"><figure class="mw-halign-center" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Coronet_of_a_British_Baron.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img 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