Martin Rees Martin Rees Martin John Rees, Baron Rees of Ludlow, (born 23 June 1942) is a British cosmologist and astrophysicist. He has been Astronomer Royal since 1995 and was Master of Trinity College, Cambridge from 2004 to 2012 and President of the Royal Society between 2005 and 2010. Rees was born on 23 June 1942 in York, England. After a peripatetic life during the war his parents, both teachers, settled with Rees, an only child, in a rural part of Shropshire near the border with Wales. There, his parents founded Bedstone College, a boarding school based on progressive educational concepts that
David Rees (cartoonist) young man, he and three of his friends recorded over 2,000 songs as members of a "secret band." Rees attempted to coerce one of his friends to ask for a bass guitar for a Christmas a gift; his friend ended up asking for a regular guitar instead and it upset Rees. Rees has a younger brother named Peter, who currently works in Chicago. Rees was married to a woman named Sarah from around 2002 until they divorced around 2009. Rees was just married on 16 June 2018 to Emily Yoshida at a ceremony in North Carolina. The couple live and