Missionary in China, born on 8 January 1877 at Northampton. He was the son of the Rev. Allen Rees (1844-1914; e.m. 1867) and grandson of Rowland Rees who, while stationed with the Royal Engineers in Hong Kong, had pleaded for missionaries to be sent there. Educated at Woodhouse Grove School and Didsbury College, he took an external BA at London in 1895 and a BSc in 1897. Inspired to offer for China by a visit from Charles Wenyon, he studied at Charing Cross Hospital for five years with the help of several scholarships, and gained both his MB and MD. He was ordained on 20 December 1904 at Wesley's Chapel, London, where his father had been minister 1891-1894, but his embarkation for China was delayed by scarlet fever until the end of March 1905. Arriving in Hong Kong, where his father had been born, he was first stationed at Fatshan, near Canton, and in 1907 moved to the hospital set up by Roderick Mcdonald in Wuchow. Illness forced him to take an early furlough, but he returned to Wuchow in 1911. He died in Hong Kong on 3 August 1913, following an operation for appendicitis.