Morgan Goronwy Rees was a Welsh journalist, academic and writer.
17 Facts About Goronwy Rees
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The family later moved to Roath, Cardiff, and Goronwy Rees was educated at Cardiff High School for Boys.
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Goronwy Rees received three scholarships in 1927 to attend New College, Oxford, where he studied History.
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In 1953, Goronwy Rees became principal of the University College of Wales in Aberystwyth.
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Goronwy Rees resigned before the inquiry ended, thus ending his academic career.
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Goronwy Rees sat on the Departmental Committee on Homosexual Offences and Prostitution and played an influential role in getting gay men's testimony heard.
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Goronwy Rees spent the last years of his life in Aberystwyth.
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Goronwy Rees wrote a column on current political affairs for Encounter.
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Goronwy Rees wrote two autobiographies, A Bundle of Sensations and A Chapter of Accidents.
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Goronwy Rees appears under the name "Eddie" in Elizabeth Bowen's 1938 novel The Death of the Heart.
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Goronwy Rees died of cancer on 12 December 1979 at Charing Cross Hospital in London.
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Goronwy Rees came into contact with the Cambridge Five spy ring through his friend Guy Burgess.
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Goronwy Rees seemed acutely conscious of the parallels between Hiss's case and that of the Cambridge Five when he wrote, "I have no intention to be the British Whittaker Chambers".
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Goronwy Rees told Andrew Boyle, author of The Climate of Treason, his reflections on his conversations with Burgess at All Souls College.
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Goronwy Rees said he had ridiculed Burgess's claim to be a spy.
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Goronwy Rees told Boyle that Anthony Blunt was the man to follow.
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In 1999, Vasili Mitrokhin, former KGB member, published the Mitrokhin archives, which included a file on Goronwy Rees, documenting his recruitment by Burgess at Oxford during the mid-1930s and two code names, "Fleet" and "Gross".