Leslie Lloyd Rees (properly surnamed Lloyd-Rees, but sometimes called Rees; 14 April 19194 July 2013) was variously Honorary Chaplain to the Queen,The Times, Thursday, Sep 09, 1971; pg. 16; Issue 58272; col A Appointments: new Chaplains to the Queen Chaplain-General of PrisonsThe Times, Wednesday, Jan 30, 1980; pg. 17; Issue 60537; col B Resignation of the Chaplain-General to the Prison Service and Anglican Bishop of Shrewsbury.Crockford's Clerical Directory 2008/2009 (100th edition), Church House Publishing ()
Rees was educated at Kelham Theological College.‘REES, Leslie Lloyd’, Who's Who 2012, A & C Black, 2012; online edition, Oxford University Press, December 2011 , accessed 6 July 2012 He was made deacon at Michaelmas 1942 (20 September) and ordained priest the Michaelmas following (18 September 1943) — both times by John Morgan, Bishop of Llandaff at Llandaff Cathedral."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 after a brief curacy at St Saviour, Roath,Parish details he embarked on a long career as a Prison Chaplain: he was successively Chaplain at Cardiff, Durham, Dartmoor and Winchester. 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.The Times, Saturday 9 August 1980; pg. 14; Issue 60699; col A Church news New Bishop of Shrewsbury He was also appointed honorary Canon of Canterbury Cathedral in 1966. He was consecrated a bishop on 3 November 1980, by Robert Runcie, Archbishop of Canterbury, at Westminster Abbey. He became a Chaplain of the Order of St John (ChStJ).
In retirement he was an honorary assistant bishop in the Diocese of Winchester,The Independent – Birthdays, 13 April 1996 having settled in Alresford, Hampshire. and served as a member of the Parole Board for England and Wales from 1987 to 1990.
Later in retirement he moved to a retirement home at Blackwater, Isle of Wight where he died in July 2013, aged 94.
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