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Revision as of 12:03, 3 June 2020

The Right Honourable
The Lord Rea
Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
In office
21 April 1982
Hereditary Peerage – 2nd June 2020
Preceded byThe 2nd Lord Rea
Personal details
Born
John Nicolas Rea

(1928-06-06) 6 June 1928 (age 96)
NationalityBritish
Political partyLabour
Spouses
  • Elizabeth Robinson
    ​
    ​
    (m. 1951; div. 1991)​
  • Judith Mary Powell
    ​
    (m. 1991)​
Children6
Parent(s)James Russell Rea
Betty Marion Bevan
EducationMA (Cam), MB BChir, MD, DObst RCOG,
Alma materDartington Hall School
Belmont Hill School
Dauntsey's School
Christ's College, Cambridge
University College Hospital
OccupationDoctor
Learned societiesFellow of the Royal College of General Practitioners
Member of the Royal Society of Medicine
Military service
Allegiance United Kingdom
Branch/service British Army
RankActing Sergeant
UnitSuffolk Regiment

John Nicolas Rea, 3rd Baron Rea (born 6 June 1928- 2nd June 2020),[1] commonly known as Nicolas Rea, was a British hereditary peer, doctor and politician.

Early life

Rea was born in 1928 to James Russell Rea and Betty Rea[1] and attended Dartington Hall School in Devon, Belmont Hill School in Massachusetts and Dauntsey's School in Wiltshire. He was further educated at Christ's College, Cambridge, where he graduated with a Master of Arts in natural sciences, a Bachelor of Medicine, a Bachelor of Surgery in 1951, and became a Doctor of Medicine (MD) in 1969.[1] At University College Hospital, London, he achieved a Diploma in Obstetrics (DObst RCOG), Diploma in Child Health and a Diploma in Public Health in the time from 1956 to 1965. In 1981, he succeeded to the barony of Rea.

Career

Rea served as acting sergeant in the Suffolk Regiment between 1946 and 1948, and held various Junior hospital posts between 1954 and 1957. He was research fellow in paediatrics in Ibadan and Lagos in Nigeria from 1962 to 1965, and lecturer in social medicine at St Thomas's Hospital Medical School in London from 1966 to 1968. From 1957 to 1962, and from 1968 to 1993, he also worked as general practitioner in North London.

Politics

Rea is a member of Amicus, Healthlink Worldwide and the Mary Ward Centre. He supports the Mother and Child Foundation, the Caroline Walker Trust and is honourable secretary of the National Heart Forum. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine and one of the ninety elected hereditary peers to remain in the House of Lords after the House of Lords Act 1999.[2]

Personal life

In 1951, Rea married Elizabeth Robinson, with whom he had four sons, Matthew James, Daniel William, Quentin Thomas and John Silas Nathaniel. With other partners he had daughters Bess Connif and Ella ‘Rosy' Amy Benjamin. He married Judith Mary Powell in 1991, the same year he divorced his first wife.[1]

Coat of arms of Nicolas Rea, 3rd Baron Rea
Crest
A stag at gaze Gules resting the dexter fore-leg on an anchor Or.
Escutcheon
Or on a fess wavy Azure between three stags courant Gules a lymphad sails furled of the field.
Supporters
On either side a stag Gules each charged on the shoulder with a bezant thereon an anchor Azure.
Motto
In Omnia Promptus [3]

References

  1. ^ a b c d Darryl Lundy (30 Sep 2012). "Person Page 55680". The Peerage. Retrieved 17 December 2015.
  2. ^ Nizinskyj, Paul (24 November 2013). "John Rea, 3rd Baron Rea". Peers Magazine. Retrieved 16 December 2015.
  3. ^ Burke's Peerage. 1949.
Peerage of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Baron Rea
1981–present 		Incumbent
Heir apparent:
Hon. Matthew Rea
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