Martin Rees but has criticised militant atheists for being too hostile to religion. He is a member of the Labour Party. 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
Melvin Rees had attended the University of Maryland and dated Wanda Tipton, their person of interest in the Margaret Harold investigation. Upon further questioning, Tipton admitting to having a relationship with Rees, but broke it off after Rees claimed to be married. The writer of the anonymous letter personally came forward in 1960 to tell authorities that Rees had contacted him and was currently employed at a music store in West Memphis, Arkansas. Rees was ultimately arrested and after searching his home police found notes describing the Jackson family's murders. The man who witnessed Margaret Harold's killing confirmed that Rees was indeed