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
Grover Rees III in 1973 and a member of the Young Republicans while he was in college. In 2016, Rees was an unsuccessful candidate for Louisiana's 3rd congressional district seat in the United States House of Representatives. The position was vacated by Charles Boustany and won in a runoff election by Republican Clay Higgins, who defeated Scott Angelle, the chairman of the Louisiana Public Service Commission and a Democrat-turned-Republican. Grover Rees III Grover Joseph Rees III (born October 11, 1951), a Louisiana lawyer, is the former United States ambassador to the Democratic Republic of East Timor. He presented his credentials to East Timorese