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
Raymond F. Rees experiences with his counterparts in the Vietnam People's Army. In 2012 Rees announced that he would retire the following year, and a search began for his successor. In January, 2013 Governor Kitzhaber announced that Rees would be succeeded by Daniel R. Hokanson when Rees retired on July 13, 2013. Rees retired in a ceremony on July 13, 2013, with his official date of retirement as July 31, and his 47 years of service surpassed the tenure of most full (four-star) generals. His retirement ceremony was attended by former Governor Kulongoski and General Frank J. Grass, the Chief of the National