Richard Bloomfield Rees (1859 – 25 June 1935) was an Australian politician.
[1] Born in Neath, Wales to colliery manager Benjamin Rees and Gwenllian Jenkins, Rees was educated in London and became a pharmacist and dentist.
After travelling through Europe he arrived in Victoria in 1884 and became a public analyst for the Board of Health at Heaglehawk and a lecturer in science at the Bendigo School of Mines and Industries.
In 1903 he was elected to the Victorian Legislative Council for North Western Province,[1] ultimately representing the Victorian Farmers' Union; he resigned his seat in 1919 to run for the Senate, unsuccessfully.
He had continued to travel and went to Patagonia to search for settlers for Victoria on the government's behalf.