Vaughan William Treharne Rees (1879-1948) was a
Welsh Anglican
Anglicanism is a Western Christian tradition that has developed from the practices, liturgy, and identity of the Church of England following the English Reformation, in the context of the Protestant Reformation in Europe. It is one of th ...
priest, most notably the first *
Archdeacon of Newport.
Rees was educated at
Llandovery College and
St David's College, Lampeter
University of Wales, Lampeter ( cy, Prifysgol Cymru, Llanbedr Pont Steffan) was a university in Lampeter, Wales. Founded in 1822, and incorporated by royal charter in 1828, it was the oldest degree awarding institution in Wales, with limited ...
. He was ordained
deacon and
priest in 1904. After
curacies in
Mountain Ash,
Canton, Cardiff an
St. Andrews Major
St. Andrew's Major () is a village and parish in the community of Dinas Powys in the Vale of Glamorgan, between Barry and Cardiff in south-eastern Wales.
Description
The village has a church which is over 600 years old and a primary school. Ba ...
he held
incumbencies at
Llanarth and
Trevethin.
[ Crockford's Clerical Directory 1929 p1076: London; OUP; 1929]
References
1960 births
20th-century Welsh Anglican priests
People educated at Llandovery College
Alumni of the University of Wales, Lampeter
Living people
Archdeacons of Newport
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