was an English doctor and minister who travelled to China to work as a medical missionary with the Wesleyan Methodist Ministry.
[1] He attended Woodhouse Grove School in Apperley Bridge, Yorkshire, and then took his B.A from the University of London via correspondence in 1895.
[1] Rees won the David H. Llewellyn Scholarship at Charing Cross Hospital, which paid for his medical education fees for five years.
He was transferred to the Wuzhou hospital after one of his colleagues fell ill. Rees married Ethel Craske of London in Hong Kong, in December 1907.
Rees published in the medical journal, The Lancet in 1908 describing the primitive knowledge of midwifery practised by some of the village people he met.
The Chinese Revolt of 1911 had the Imperial army engaged in fighting with revolutionary soldiers near Wuzhou, which increased the number of patients being admitted to the hospital.
Rees' health continued to decline and following a vacation to Hong Kong, he suffered from an acute attack of appendicitis.