Brinley Roderick Rees (27 December 1919 – 21 October 2004) was a Welsh academic. He wrote extensively on classics, particularly the study of the Greek language. His early work was devoted to Greek papyri; a later publication was devoted to the life and letters of Pelagius.
Life and career
Rees was born on 27 December 1919. Rees was educated at Christ College, Brecon, and at Merton College, Oxford. After wartime service in the Royal Welch Fusiliers took his first academic position at Cardiff High School for Boys, where he was an assistant master between 1947 and 1948.
Rees then started his long career in higher education. In 1948, he became lecturer in classics at the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, then senior lecturer in Greek at the University of Manchester from 1956. the very first principal in the college's long history who was not in holy orders. He was a Welsh Supernumerary Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford, in 1975–1976 by virtue of his position as Principal of St David's.
- The Use of Greek, 1961
- Papyri from Hermopolis and other Byzantine Documents, 1964
- Strength in What Remains, 1980
- Pelagius: A Reluctant Heretic, 1988, Boydell Press
- The Letters of Pelagius and his Followers, 1991
- Pelagius: life and letters, 1998