Rees, Abraham, compiler of “Rees' Cyclopedia” (45 vols.), born in Montgomeryshire; became a tutor at Hoxton Academy, and subsequently ministered in the Unitarian Chapel at Old Jewry for some 40 years (1743‒1825).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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