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
Mel Rees out. Former team mate Kevin Gage later recalled the moment, stating: Rees died at the end of the following month, aged 26. The 'Mel Rees Tournament' is held every summer at the Sheffield United academy to raise money for St Luke's Hospice. Mel Rees Melvyn John Rees (25 January 1967 – 30 May 1993) was a Welsh professional footballer who made 75 appearances in the Football League as a goalkeeper before he died from cancer at the age of 26. Rees was born in Cardiff, where he attended Fitzalan High School. During his time there, he was a member of