Sir Robert Rees Davies, (6 August 1938 – 16 May 2005) was a Welsh historian.
Biography
Davies was born near Llandderfel, Merionethshire, and educated at Bala Grammar School. He was bilingual in Welsh and English. He received a First in his degree from University College London in 1959, later returning there as a lecturer in 1963. In 1959 he undertook a two-year postgraduate study of the Duchy of Lancaster's Welsh lordships in the later Middle Ages at Merton College, Oxford under the supervision of K. B. McFarlane.
In 1966, he married Carys Lloyd Wynne, with whom he had one son and one daughter.
Professor Sir Rees Davies died of cancer in Oxford, aged 66.