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Obituary: John Rees Albert Knight


Trading standards lost a meticulous and much loved colleague in July 2020

Richard Young

Posted 08 November 2020 | JoTS Online


Content Tags:  Updates|Inside Trading Standards|National


UPDATES: A tribute to John Rees Albert Knight, whose long career across South Wales trading standards combined professional integrity with kindness, mentorship and public service, leaving a lasting legacy among colleagues who knew and worked alongside him.

John Rees Albert Knight, a well-liked and respected trading standards colleague, sadly passed away on July 27, 2020 at his family home in Caerleon, Gwent. John was 86 and was born in 1934 in Abercarn, a small town and community traditionally associated with the coal mining, iron works and tinplate works of the Valleys.

He was well qualified for a Weights and Measures career, bei...

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