William Rees-Thomas

William Rees-Thomas CB FRCP FRSM (15 June 1887 – 13 April 1978) was a Welsh psychiatrist.[1] He was Medical Senior Commissioner for the Board of Control for Lunacy and Mental Deficiency.

Born in Senny, Breconshire, he was educated at County School, Brecon and Cardiff University. He became a Member of the Royal College of Physicians in 1913 and a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in 1933.

He was awarded the Alfred Sheen Prize, 1906; Alfred Hughes Memorial Medal, 1907; Llewelyn Prize, 1909; Murchison Scholar (RCP), 1912; Gaskell Prize and gold medal.

During the First World War he served in the Royal Army Medical Corps[2]

He was appointed to the Board of Control in 1931, replacing Arthur Rotherham as Medical Senior Commissioner[2]

He was made a Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) in 1950[3]

He married Muriel Hodgson Jones in 1917; they had a son Frederick Douglas Rees-Thomas (1920–1995), and daughter Aelwyn Minette (1922–2012).[4] He was widowed in 1934.[5] In 1948 he remarried Ruth Darwin, a colleague of his on the Board of Control, daughter of Sir Horace and Lady Ida Darwin[6] they had no children, and she died in 1972.[7] He died in Surrey in 1978.

References

  1. ^ REES-THOMAS, William’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007 accessed 28 Dec 2012
  2. ^ a b The Times, Thursday, Dec 17, 1931; pg. 12; Issue 46008; col D
  3. ^ http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/38929/supplements/2777 and http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/38929/supplements/2778
  4. ^ Aelwen Minette TAYLOR-ROBERTS Obituary Published in The Times on April 2, 2012
  5. ^ Deaths. The Times, Saturday, Jun 16, 1934; pg. 1; Issue 46782; col A
  6. ^ DARWIN, Ruth Frances’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007 accessed 28 Dec 2012
  7. ^ Obituary: Mrs W. Rees-Thomas, The Times, Monday, Oct 16, 1972; pg. 14; Issue 58606; col F