Peter Rees, Baron Rees

Peter Wynford Innes Rees, Baron Rees PC, QC (9 December 1926 – 30 November 2008) was a British politician. He was Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) for Dover and Deal from 1974 to 1983 and MP for Dover from 1970 to 1974 and 1983 to 1987. He was Chief Secretary to the Treasury from 1983 until 1985.

Rees was educated at Stowe and Christ Church, Oxford, where he took a degree in history. After National Service with the Scots Guards from 1945 to 1948, he was called to the bar in 1953 at the Inner Temple, and became a QC in 1969.

Political career

At the 1964 general election Rees stood as the Conservative candidate in the safe Labour seat of Abertillery, where he won only 14% of the votes, against the 86% won by the only other candidate, Labour's Reverend Llewellyn Williams. When Williams died in 1965, Rees was the Conservative candidate in the consequent by-election, losing by a similarly large margin.

At the 1966 election, he stood in the more promising Labour-held seat of Liverpool West Derby, but lost again.

Peter Rees (footballer)

Peter Rees is a footballer who played as an inside forward in the Football League for Tranmere Rovers.

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Peter Rees (producer)

Peter Rees is a film and television writer/ director and producer. He created and developed the concept and was the executive producer of the television series MythBusters. Rees won the 1993 Charles Heidsieck International Travel Challenge, and with his race partner, Peter Coleman, wrote and directed a documentary about the event, In the Footsteps of Champagne Charlie.

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