Nicolas Rea, 3rd Baron Rea
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The Right Honourable The Lord Rea |
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| Member of the House of Lords | |
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Assumed office 11 November 1999 as an excepted hereditary peer |
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In office 21 April 1982 – 11 November 1999 as a hereditary peer |
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| Preceded by | Philip Rea, 2nd Baron Rea |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
John Nicolas Rea 6 June 1928 |
| Nationality | British |
| Political party | Labour |
| Spouse(s) | Elizabeth Robinson m.1951 div.1991 Judith Mary Powell m.1991 |
| Children | 6 |
| Parents | James Russell Rea Betty Marion Bevan |
| Education | MA (Cam), MB BChir, MD, DObst RCOG, |
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Dartington Hall School Belmont Hill School Dauntsey's School Christ's College, Cambridge University College Hospital |
| Occupation | Doctor |
| Learned societies | Fellow of the Royal College of General Practitioners Member of the Royal Society of Medicine |
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| Allegiance |
 United Kingdom
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| Service/branch |
 British Army
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| Rank | Acting Sergeant |
| Unit | Suffolk Regiment |
John Nicolas Rea, 3rd Baron Rea, commonly known as Nicolas Rea (born 6 June 1928), a British peer, doctor and politician.
Rea was born in 1928 to James Russell Rea and Betty Rea 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. 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.
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.
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