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
Seth Cook Rees Corps, the City Mission Corps, the Hospital Corps, and the Open Air Corps. Rees' military-style form of organization underscored the active engagement with the poor and downtrodden, a central tenet of Rees' philosophy. After two years of his Providence revival, Rees again took to the road to preach. With his boisterous preaching style, he was dubbed the "Earthquaker." While in Cincinnati, he met Martin Wells Knapp. With Knapp, Rees formed the International Holiness Union and Prayer League in 1897, an organization led by Rees until 1905. The Prayer League emphasized holiness, healing, evangelism, and premillennialism. In this regard, the League