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
Jonathan Rees data and bank accounts, corruption of police officers and alleged commissioning of burglaries. "The Guardian" queried why the Metropolitan Police had chosen to exclude a very large quantity of Rees material from investigation by its Operation Weeting inquiry into phone hacking. Following in excess of three years on bail, Rees and others were told all charges related to Op Kalmyk and Op Tuleta would be "no further actioned". This in turn focused attention on the credibility of Ian Hurst (Martin Ingram). "The Guardian" had published extensively on Rees's involvement with corrupt police officers and the procurement of confidential information for