{{Short description|British hereditary peer, doctor, and politician (1928–2020)}} {{more citations needed|date=December 2015}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox officeholder | honorific_prefix = The Right Honourable | name = The Lord Rea | honorific_suffix = | image = Lord Rea 2020.jpg | caption = Rea's last parliamentary speech, 2020 | office1 = Member of the House of Lords | status1 = Lord Temporal | term_label1 = Hereditary peerage | term_start1 = 22 April 1982 | term_end1 = 11 November 1999 | predecessor1 = The 2nd Baron Rea | successor1 = Seat abolished | term_label2 = Elected Hereditary Peer | term_start2 = 11 November 1999 | term_end2 = 1 June 2020 | 1blankname2 = Election | 1namedata2 = 1999 | predecessor2 = Seat established | successor2 = The 3rd Viscount Stansgate | birth_name = John Nicolas Rea | birth_date = {{Birth date|1928|6|6|df=y}}<ref name="thepeerage">{{cite web|author1=Darryl Lundy|title=Person Page 55680|url=http://www.thepeerage.com/p55680.htm#i556795|website=The Peerage|accessdate=17 December 2015|date=30 Sep 2012}}</ref> | birth_place = | death_date = {{Death date and age|2020|6|1|1928|6|6|df=y}} | parents = James Russell Rea<br />Betty Marion Bevan | spouse = {{unbulleted list|{{marriage|Elizabeth Robinson |1951|1991|end=div}} |{{marriage|Judith Mary Powell |1991}}}} | children = 6 | education = MA (Cantab), MB BChir, MD, DObst RCOG, | alma_mater = Dartington Hall School<br />Belmont Hill School<br />Dauntsey's School<br />Christ's College, Cambridge<br />University College Hospital | occupation = Doctor | blank1 = Learned societies | data1 = Fellow of the Royal College of General Practitioners<br />Member of the Royal Society of Medicine | party = Labour | blank2 = Known for | data2 = | blank3 = Notable works | data3 = | website = | allegiance = {{UK}} | branch = {{army|United Kingdom}} | rank = Acting Sergeant | unit = Suffolk Regiment }} '''John Nicolas Rea, 3rd Baron Rea''' (6 June 1928 – 1 June 2020), commonly known as '''Nicolas Rea''', was a British hereditary peer, doctor and politician.

== Early life == Rea was born in 1928 to James Russell Rea and Betty Rea (née Bevan),<ref name="thepeerage" /> and attended Dartington Hall School in Devon, Belmont Hill School in Massachusetts and Dauntsey's School in Wiltshire. He was further educated at Christ's College, Cambridge, where he graduated with a Master of Arts in natural sciences, a Bachelor of Medicine, a Bachelor of Surgery in 1951, and became a Doctor of Medicine (MD) in 1969.<ref name="thepeerage" /> At University College Hospital, London, he achieved a Diploma in Obstetrics (DObst RCOG), Diploma in Child Health and a Diploma in Public Health in the time from 1956 to 1965. In 1981, he succeeded to the barony of Rea.

== Career == Rea served as acting sergeant in the Suffolk Regiment between 1946 and 1948, and held various Junior hospital posts between 1954 and 1957. He was research fellow in paediatrics in Ibadan and Lagos in Nigeria from 1962 to 1965, and lecturer in social medicine at St Thomas's Hospital Medical School in London from 1966 to 1968. From 1957 to 1962, and from 1968 to 1993, he also worked as general practitioner in North London.

== Politics == Rea was a member of Amicus, Healthlink Worldwide and the Mary Ward Centre. He supported the Mother and Child Foundation, the Caroline Walker Trust and was honourable secretary of the National Heart Forum. He was a fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine and one of the ninety elected hereditary peers to remain in the House of Lords after the House of Lords Act 1999.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Nizinskyj|first1=Paul|title=John Rea, 3rd Baron Rea|url=http://hereditarypeerage.com/john-rea-3rd-baron-rea/|website=Peers Magazine|accessdate=16 December 2015|date=24 November 2013|archive-date=22 December 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151222091944/http://hereditarypeerage.com/john-rea-3rd-baron-rea/|url-status=dead}}</ref>

== Personal life == In 1951, Rea married Elizabeth Robinson, with whom he had four sons, Matthew James, Daniel William, Quentin Thomas and John Silas Nathaniel. With other partners he had daughters Bess Connif and Ella ‘Rosy' Amy Benjamin. He married Judith Mary Powell in 1991, the same year he divorced his first wife.<ref name="thepeerage" />

He died on 1 June 2020 at the age of 91.<ref>[https://members.parliament.uk/members/Lords?showadvanced=true&membershipstatus=4 Find Members of the House of Lords]</ref>

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==References== {{reflist|2}} *{{cite web| url= http://www.dodonline.co.uk/engine.asp?lev1=4&lev2=38&menu=81&biog=y&id=26597| title= DodOnline| accessdate= 2006-12-14| url-status= dead| archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20061003060934/http://www.dodonline.co.uk/engine.asp?lev1=4&lev2=38&menu=81&biog=y&id=26597| archivedate= 2006-10-03}}

== External links == *[http://www.parliament.uk/biographies/lords/lord-rea/3274 Lord Rea Profile - Parliament.UK] *[http://www.ukhealthforum.org.uk/ UK Health Forum] {{s-start}} {{s-reg|uk}} {{s-bef | before = Philip Rea}} {{s-ttl | title = Baron Rea | years = 1981&ndash;2020|lords=1989–1999}} {{s-aft | after = Matthew Rea}} {{s-par|uk}} {{s-new|office|reason=''created by the House of Lords Act 1999''}} {{s-ttl|title=Elected hereditary peer to the House of Lords<br>'''''under the House of Lords Act 1999'''''|years=1999–2020}} {{s-aft | after = The Viscount Stansgate}} {{s-end}}

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