Bryn Austin Rees

REES, Bryn Austin. b. Chelsea, London, 21 September 1911; d. Epping, Essex, 4 August 1983. Educated at Neath Grammar School, South Wales, he trained for the Congregational ministry at Hackney and New College, London. He was ordained in 1935, and held pastorates at Sawbridgeworth, Hertfordshire; Ipswich, Suffolk; Felixstowe, Suffolk; Muswell Hill, London; and, as a United Reformed Church minister, Woodford Green, Essex, and Epping. He was a chaplain to the Royal Air Force during the war. In collaboration with Dr William S. Lloyd Webber, organist of the Methodist Central Hall, Westminster, he wrote several anthems and an Easter cantata, The Saviour. As a hymn writer he is best known for three...