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REES, THOMAS (1777–1864)

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Originally appearing in Volume V22, Page 975 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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REES, See also:THOMAS (1777–1864) , Welsh See also:Nonconformist divine, was See also:born at Gelligron, Glamorgan, and educated at the Presbyterian See also:College, See also:Carmarthen. He entered the Unitarian See also:ministry in 1807 at Newington See also:Green See also:Chapel, See also:London, removing to See also:Southwark 1813 and to See also:Stamford See also:Street, Blackfriars, in 1823. He had the degree of LL.D. of See also:Glasgow (1819). He had a See also:great knowledge of the See also:history of See also:anti-trinitarian See also:opinion, especially during the 16th See also:century. His scattered papers, chiefly in the Monthly Repository (1818–22), on such subjects as " Faustus See also:Socinus and See also:Francis See also:David," " The See also:Italian See also:Reformation," " See also:Memoirs of the Socini," are important. See also:Financial troubles drove him to See also:Spain in 1853, and he died in obscurity at See also:Brighton on the 1st of See also:August 1864. Another THOMAS REES (1815-1885), a native of See also:Pen Pontbren, See also:Carmarthenshire, held pastorates at See also:Aberdare (1840), See also:Llanelly (1842), Cendl, Mon. (1849) and See also:Swansea (1862), 1 An See also:illustration of one of these is given in T. L. See also:Southgate's See also:paper, " The See also:Regal and its Successors," in See also:English See also:Music, 1604-1904, A'Iusic See also:Story See also:Series, 1906, p. 385. ' The addition See also:dates from the very end of the 18th or the beginning of the 19th century, and is connected with the See also:advent of the See also:harmonium (q.v.).

and became chairman of the Congregational See also:

Union of See also:England and See also:Wales, but died just before his See also:term of See also:office was to begin. His History of See also:Protestant See also:Nonconformity in Wales (1861; 2nd ed. 1883) is a See also:sound and judicious piece of See also:work.

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