Martyr King (The), Charles I. of England (1600, 1625-1649).
Louis XVI. of France is also called Louis “the Martyr” (1754, 1774-1793).
Martyrs to Science.
Claude Louis, Count Berthollet, who tested on himself the effects of carbonic acid on the human frame, and died under the experiment (1748-1822).
Giordano Bruno, who was burnt alive for maintaining that matter is the mother of all things (1550-1600).
Galileo, who was imprisoned twice by the Inquisition for maintaining that the earth moved round the sun, and not the sun round the earth (1564-1642).
And scores of others.
Marvellous Boy (The), Thomas Chatterton (1752-1770).
I thought of Chatterton, the marvellous boy,
The sleepless soul that perished in his pride.
Wordsworth.
Marwood (Alice), daughter of an old woman who called herself Mrs. Brown. When a mere girl she was concerned in a burglary and was transported. Carker, manager in the firm of Dombey and Son, seduced her, and both she and her mother determined on revenge. Alice bore a striking resemblance to Edith (Mr. Dombey’s second wife), and in fact they were cousins, for Mrs. Brown was “wife” of the brother-in-law of the Hon. Mrs. Skewton (Edith’s mother).—C. Dickens, Dombey and Son (1846).