The historian Rees Davies died at the age of 66. Here is all you want to know, and more!
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Welsh historian who served as President of the Royal Historical Society and Chairman of the Ancient Monuments Board. His historical publications include Wales: the Age Of Conquest and Lords and Lordship in the British Isles in the Late Middle Ages.
He married Carys Lloyd Wynne in 1966. He and Wynne later became parents to a son and a daughter.
Professor Sir Rees Davies died of cancer in Oxford, aged 66.