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^"MEMORIAL SERVICE FOR CHRISTOPHER EWART-BIGGS, BRITISH AMBASSADOR TO THE REPUBLIC OF IRELAND, 1976". He also completed a master's degree in 1955. The constituency was renamed as Morley and Leeds South in 1983. Dictionary of Welsh Biography. Rees wrote later that it seemed likely the IRA had known of his impending visit but were unaware of its cancellation.

He played an important role in the passage of the War Crimes Act, 1991, which allowed British courts to try German war criminals, and served on the Video Standards Council (1990-2006).

He joined the House of Lords in 1992 when he was ennobled as Lord Merlyn-Rees of Morley and South Leeds in the County of West Yorkshire and of Cilfynydd in the County of Mid-Glamorgan, changing his name to Merlyn Merlyn-Rees by deed poll.

The developing crisis across the Irish sea, of which he had experience as a former Home Office minister, would engross the next 10 years of Merlyn Rees's career. The London Gazette. He managed his friend's successful leadership campaign and was rewarded with appointment as Home Secretary (1976-1979). Wakefieldtoday.co.uk.

One month after his appointment as Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, Rees lifted the proscription against the illegal loyalist paramilitary organisation, the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) in an attempt to bring them into the democratic process, however, the organisation was implicated in the Dublin and Monaghan bombings on 17 May 1974 and the group was once more banned by the British Government on 3 October 1975.

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^"Obituary: Lord Merlyn-Rees". 47th United Kingdom Parliament.

48th United Kingdom Parliament. Legacy

Merlyn Rees Avenue in Morley, West Yorkshire is named after Rees.

Merlyn Rees Community High School in Belle Isle, Leeds was named after Rees until its merger with Mathew Murray Comprehensive School in 2006 when it was renamed South Leeds High School.

Ambitions to reform nationality law, for example, never got beyond consultation. For two years before the Labour government came to power in 1974 he had been Labour Party spokesman on Northern Ireland. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). 6 July 1992.