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
Walter E. Rees the outbreak of World War I, Rees was made the recruiting officer for the Neath district, responsible for the recruitment of more than a third of Glamorgan. In 1916 the War Office conferred on Rees the rank of Captain, to reflect his position as the principal registration and tribunal officer for the area. Walter E. Rees Captain Walter Enoch Rees (13 April 1863 – 6 June 1949) was a Welsh rugby union administrator who was the longest serving secretary of the Welsh Rugby Union and joint manager of the 1910 British Lions tour of South Africa. Rees was born in