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        1. Merlyn Merlyn-Rees, Baron Merlyn-Rees, PC was a British Labour Party politician and Member of Parliament from until He served as Secretary of.
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        3. Merlyn Merlyn-Rees, Baron Merlyn-Rees, PC was a British Labour Party politician and Member of Parliament from until He served as Secretary of State for Northern Ireland and Home Secretary.
        4. Brief Biography: Merlyn Rees was born in South Wales but later received his education at Harrow Weald Grammar School, Middlesex, and the London School of.
        5. Merlyn Rees

          British politician (1920–2006)

          Merlyn Merlyn-Rees, Baron Merlyn-Rees, PC (né Merlyn Rees; 18 December 1920 – 5 January 2006) was a British Labour Party politician and Member of Parliament from 1963 until 1992.

          He served as Secretary of State for Northern Ireland (1974–1976) and Home Secretary (1976–1979).

          Early life

          Rees was born in Cilfynydd, near Pontypridd, Glamorgan, the son of Levi Rees, a war veteran who moved from Wales to England to find work.[1] He was educated at Harrow WealdGrammar School, Harrow, England and Goldsmiths College, London where he was president of the students' union.

          Goldsmiths was evacuated to Nottingham University early in the war, where Rees served in Nottingham University Air Squadron.[2]

          In 1941 Rees joined the Royal Air Force, becoming a squadron leader and earning the nickname "Dagwood".

          He served in Italy as operations and intelligence officer to No 324 Squadron under Group Captain W. G. G. Duncan Smith