Leslie Lloyd Rees

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Script error: No such module "For". Template:Use dmy dates Template:British barrelled name Script error: No such module "Infobox".Template:Template otherScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Leslie Lloyd Rees (properly surnamed Lloyd-Rees, but sometimes called Rees; 14 April 1919Template:Snd4 July 2013)[1] was variously Honorary Chaplain to the Queen,[2] Chaplain-General of Prisons[3] and Anglican Bishop of Shrewsbury.[4]

Rees was educated at Kelham Theological College.[5] He was made deacon at Michaelmas 1942 (20 September)[6] and ordained priest the Michaelmas following (18 September 1943) — both times by John Morgan, Bishop of Llandaff at Llandaff Cathedral.[7][8] after a brief curacy at St Saviour, Roath,[9] he embarked on a long career as a Prison Chaplain: he was successively Chaplain at Cardiff, Durham, Dartmoor and Winchester.[5] In 1962 he was appointed to the head of the service (Chaplain-General of Prisons), a post he held until his appointment to the episcopate 18 years later.[10] He was also appointed honorary Canon of Canterbury Cathedral in 1966.[11] He was consecrated a bishop on 3 November 1980, by Robert Runcie, Archbishop of Canterbury, at Westminster Abbey.[12] He became a Chaplain of the Order of St John (ChStJ).

In retirement he was an honorary assistant bishop in the Diocese of Winchester,[13] having settled in Alresford, Hampshire.[11] and served as a member of the Parole Board for England and Wales from 1987 to 1990.[5]

Later in retirement he moved to a retirement home at Blackwater, Isle of Wight[5] where he died in July 2013, aged 94.

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  2. The Times, Thursday, Sep 09, 1971; pg. 16; Issue 58272; col A Appointments: new Chaplains to the Queen
  3. The Times, Wednesday, Jan 30, 1980; pg. 17; Issue 60537; col B Resignation of the Chaplain-General to the Prison Service
  4. Crockford's Clerical Directory 2008/2009 (100th edition), Church House Publishing (Template:ISBN)
  5. a b c d ‘REES, Leslie Lloyd’, Who's Who 2012, A & C Black, 2012; online edition, Oxford University Press, December 2011 [1], accessed 6 July 2012
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  8. "Long serving Chaplain General of the Prison Service who used his boxing credentials to good effect to establish a rapport with inmates" Obituaries p47 The Times Issue no 70,934 dated Thursday 11 July 2013
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  10. The Times, Saturday 9 August 1980; pg. 14; Issue 60699; col A Church news New Bishop of Shrewsbury
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  13. The Independent – Birthdays, 13 April 1996

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