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The Right Honourable Merlyn Rees, later '''Merlyn Merlyn-Rees, Baron Merlyn-Rees''', PC ( December 18 , 1920 – January 5 , 2006 ) was a British Labour party Member Of Parliament from 1963 until 1992 . In that year, he was created a Life Peer and entered the House Of Lords (changing his name by Deed Poll to Merlyn Merlyn-Rees in order to be known as Lord Merlyn-Rees) (see {Link without Title} ). Born at Cilfynydd, near Pontypridd , South Wales , and educated at Harrow Weald Grammar School, and Goldsmiths College where he was president of the Students' Union from 1939 to 1941 . He served in the RAF Nottingham University Air Squadron during World War Two , becoming a squadron leader at 25. He attended the London School Of Economics where he received BSc(Econ) and MSc(Econ) and. He was appointed Schoolmaster at his old school in Harrow in 1949, teaching Economics and History . He taught for eleven years, during which time he was three times an unsuccessful parliamentary candidate for Harrow East . He was a member of the Institute Of Education at the University Of London from 1959 to 1962. At ISBN 0413525902 ). He was president of the Video Standards Council from 1990 and the first Chancellor of the University Of Glamorgan from 1994 to 2002. He suffered injuries in a number of falls, and failing to recover from these, fell into a Coma , dying at the age of 85. He was survived by his wife Colleen and three sons. SOURCES | ||
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