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
Ennis Rees university until his retirement in 1988. Rees was named to be South Carolina's third poet laureate by Governor Dick Riley in 1984. Originally a life-time appointment, Riley changed the position some during his governorship and appointed Freeman to only a one-year term of office. Rees was married to the former Marion Lott. They had three children. In addition to his published books, some of Ennis' work has appeared in "Journal of English", "The Southern Review", "The New Republic", and "Germanic Philology". Ennis Rees Ennis Samuel Rees, Jr. (March 17, 1925 – March 24, 2009) was an American poet and professor.