Dame Dorothy Mary Rees Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire was a Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom, and was briefly a Member of Parliament.
Career
At the 1950 general election, she was elected as Member of Parliament for the constituency of Barry, but lost her seat at the 1951 general election to the Conservative Raymond Gower. In Parliament, she served as Parliamentary Private Secretary (Parliamentary Private Secretary) to Edith Summerskill, the Minister of National Insurance.
Membership
39th United Kingdom Parliament]
Rees was a schoolteacher in South Wales and a member of Barry Borough Council, and an alderman of Glamorgan County Council. 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 Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1964, and a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1975.