Thomas Rees was a native of Pci Pontbren, Carmarthenshire

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 who held pastor

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ates at Aberdare

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 (1840), Llanelli

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 (1842), Cendl (Beaufort), Mon. (1849) and Swansea

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 (1862) and became chairman of the Congregational Union of England and Wales, but died just before his term of office was to begin. He published the History of Protestant Nonconformity in Wales (1861; 2nd ed. 1883).

Rees was a Doctor of Divinity, probably awarded by an American University.

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