page_title: Trinity College, Cambridge
section_title: Masters
hierarchical_section_title: Trinity College, Cambridge / People associated with the college / Masters
caption_attribution_description: English: Photograph of Sir Martin Rees (Lord Rees of Ludlow) taken at the 50th anniversary of the Lovell radio telescope at Jodrell Bank. Português: Fotografia de Sir Martin Rees (Lord Rees de Ludlow) discursando no 50º aniversário do radio telescópio Lovell em Jodrell Bank.
context_page_description: Trinity College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge in England. The college was founded in 1546 by King Henry VIII. With around 600 undergraduates, 300 graduates, and over 180 fellows, it is the largest college in either of the Oxbridge universities by number of undergraduates. In terms of total student numbers, it is second only to Homerton College, Cambridge.
  Members of Trinity have won 34 Nobel Prizes out of the 116 won by members of Cambridge University, the highest number of any college at either Oxford or Cambridge. Five Fields Medals in mathematics have been won by members of the college and one Abel Prize has been won.
  Trinity alumni include six British prime ministers, physicists Isaac Newton, James Clerk Maxwell, Ernest Rutherford and Niels Bohr, mathematicians Srinivasa Ramanujan and Michael Atiyah, the poets Lord Byron and Lord Tennyson, historians Lord Macaulay, G. M. Trevelyan and E.H. Carr, philosophers Ludwig Wittgenstein and Bertrand Russell, and Soviet spies Kim Philby, Guy Burgess, and Anthony Blunt.
context_section_description: The head of Trinity College is called the Master.
  The role is a Crown appointment, formerly made by the Monarch on the advice of the Prime Minister. Nowadays the Fellows of the College propose a new Master for the appointment, but the final decision is still in principle that of the Monarch. 
  The first Master, John Redman, was appointed in 1546.
  Six Masters subsequent to Rab Butler had been Fellows of the College prior to becoming Master (Honorary Fellow in the case of Martin Rees), the last of these being Sir Gregory Winter, appointed on 2 October 2012. He was succeeded by Dame Sally Davies, the first female Master of Trinity College, on 8 October 2019.
caption: Martin Rees was Master of Trinity from 2004 to 2012
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