William Rees-Thomas CB FRCP FRSM (15 June 1887 – 13 April 1978) was a Welsh psychiatrist. He was Medical Senior Commissioner for the Board of Control for Lunacy and Mental Deficiency.
Born in Senny, Breconshire, he was educated at County School, Brecon and Cardiff University. He became a Member of the Royal College of Physicians in 1913 and a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in 1933.
He was awarded the Alfred Sheen Prize, 1906; Alfred Hughes Memorial Medal, 1907; Llewelyn Prize, 1909; Murchison Scholar (RCP), 1912; Gaskell Prize and gold medal.
During the First World War he served in the Royal Army Medical Corps
He was appointed to the Board of Control in 1931, replacing Arthur Rotherham as Medical Senior Commissioner
He was made a Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) in 1950
He married Muriel Hodgson Jones in 1917; they had a son Frederick Douglas Rees-Thomas (1920–1995), and daughter Aelwyn Minette (1922–2012). He was widowed in 1934. In 1948 he remarried Ruth Darwin, a colleague of his on the Board of Control, daughter of Sir Horace and Lady Ida Darwin they had no children, and she died in 1972. He died in Surrey in 1978.
References
- REES-THOMAS, William’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007 accessed 28 Dec 2012
- ^ The Times, Thursday, Dec 17, 1931; pg. 12; Issue 46008; col D
- http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/38929/supplements/2777 and http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/38929/supplements/2778
- Aelwen Minette TAYLOR-ROBERTS Obituary Published in The Times on April 2, 2012
- Deaths. The Times, Saturday, Jun 16, 1934; pg. 1; Issue 46782; col A
- DARWIN, Ruth Frances’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007 accessed 28 Dec 2012
- Obituary: Mrs W. Rees-Thomas, The Times, Monday, Oct 16, 1972; pg. 14; Issue 58606; col F