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Ioan Bowen Rees (13 January 1929 – 4 May 1999) was a Welsh poet, mountaineer and political activist. Born in Dolgellau, Rees studied at the grammar school, then at Bootham School in York. He won a scholarship to Queen's College, Oxford, before becoming a solicitor working for Denbighshire County Council. He became active in Plaid Cymru, and stood unsuccessfully in Conway at the 1955 and 1959 UK general elections, then in Merthyr Tydfil in 1964.〔Jim Perrin, "(Ioan Bowen Rees )", ''The Guardian'', 7 June 1999〕〔Meic Stephens, "(Obituary: Ioan Bowen Rees )", ''The Independent'', 7 May 1999〕 Rees worked for local government in Lancashire, Cardiff and Pembrokeshire before returning to Gwynedd, where he was Chief Executive from 1974 until 1991.〔〔 An advocate of localism and environmentalism, he wrote ''Government by Community'' as a critique of the planned changes to local government enacted in the Local Government Act 1972;〔 this won the Royal Institute of Public Administration's Haldane Medal. Later in life, Rees compiled an anthology, ''The Mountains of Wales'', and he became a druid of the Gorsedd in recognition of his Welsh-language poetry.〔 He was on the advisory council for the creating of the National Assembly of Wales, but died shortly before it opened. Rees' son, Gruff Rhys, became a well-known musician with the Super Furry Animals.〔 ==References== 〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ioan Bowen Rees」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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