Sir John Rees, 1st Baronet

Sir John David Rees, 1st Baronet, KCIE, CVO (16 December 1854 – 2 June 1922[1]) was a colonial administrator in British India and subsequently a Member of Parliament at Westminster.

He served mostly in the south of India where he was Under-Secretary in the Madras Government, and later the British Resident in Travancore and Cochin.

[4] Their daughter Rosemary Rees, later Lady du Cros (1901-1994) was an aviator and one of the first eight female pilots appointed to the Air Transport Auxiliary during the Second World War.

[5] He was succeeded in the baronetcy by his son, Richard Rees, the inspiration for Ravelston in Orwell's Keep The Aspidistra Flying.

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