MARTIN, John Charles. Ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, scholar 1814, fellow 1821–9, B.A. 1816, M.A. 1825, B.D. and D.D. 1835; R. of Killeshandra, Kilmore 30 May 1831 to death; archdeacon of Ardagh 1854–66; archdeacon of Kilmore, Sep. 1866 to death. d. 17 Jany. 1878.
MARTIN, John Edward (eld. son of John Martin 1791–1855, librarian to Duke of Bedford). b. 1821 or 1822; sub-librarian to Society of Inner Temple 1850; librarian 1856 to Dec. 1882 when his brain gave way; private librarian to Duke of Bedford at Woburn, to Duke of Northumberland, Marquis of Ripon and other owners of extensive collections. d. 20 July 1893. Law Journal 29 July 1893 p. 536.
MARTIN, Leopold Charles (2 son of John Martin, painter 1789–1854). b. 6 Dec. 1817; godson of Leopold afterwards first king of the Belgians; an artist and numismatist; clerk in the Stationery office, London 1836 to 1870; author of Contributions to English literature by the civil servants of the crown and East India company from 1794 to 1863. 1865; author with his elder brother Charles Martin of Civil costumes of England from the conquest to George III. 61 plates 1842, and of Dresses worn at Her Majesty’s Bal Costumé, May 1842. 1842; author with Charles Trubner of The current gold and silver coins of all countries 1862, 2 ed. 1863. d. London 8 Jany. 1889.
MARTIN, Peter John (son of Peter Patrick Martin, surgeon). b. Pulborough, Sussex 1786; M.R.C.S. 1813; practised at Pulborough; F.G.S. 1833; gave 3 lectures in 1833–4, afterwards published, to the Philosophical and literary society of Chichester on A parallel between Shakespeare and Scott and the kindred nature of their genius; wrote often under signature of P.P. in The Gardeners’ Chronicle 1841–5; author of Geological memoir on a part of Western Sussex, with some observations upon chalk basins, the Weald denudation and outlines by protrusion 1828. d. Pulborough 13 May 1860.
MARTIN, Philip Wykeham (eld. son of Charles Wykeham-Martin of Leeds castle, Kent 1801–70). b. 6 Hill st. Berkeley sq. London 18 Jany. 1829; ed. at Eton and Balliol coll. Oxf., B.A. 1850; M.P. for Rochester 8 Feb. 1856 to death; introduced and carried the Sale of spirits amendment act 1862 and the Hotel keepers’ liability act 1863. d. in library of House of Commons 31 May 1878, being only member who has died in the House since Spencer Perceval. bur. in parish church of Broomfield near Leeds Castle 7 June. I.L.N. xxxiii 92, 94 (1858), portrait.
MARTIN, Robert Montgomery. b. co. Tyrone, Ireland about 1803; went to Ceylon about 1820; arrived at the Cape of Good Hope, June 1823; went to New South Wales 1825; resided in India 1828–30 when he returned to England; founded The Colonial Magazine 1840, edited it 1840–2; member of the court of East India Co. 1839; treasurer and member of legislative council of Hong Kong, Jany. 1844 to July 1845; an original member of East India Association 1866; author of Ireland as it was, is and ought to be 1833; The history of the British colonies 5 vols. 1834; The Marquis of Wellesley’s Indian despatches 5 vols. 1836; History of the antiquities of Eastern India 3 vols. 1838; Statistics of the colonies of the British empire 1840; Ireland before and after the Union 1844, 2 ed. 1848; China, political, commercial and social 2 vols. 1847; The Indian empire 5 vols. 1857. d. Wellesley lodge, Sutton, Surrey 6 Sep. 1868.
MARTIN, Samuel (son of Wm. Martin, shipwright). b. Woolwich 28 April 1817; Congregationalist pastor of Highbury chapel, Cheltenham, Feb. 1839 to 1842; pastor of Independent chapel, Little James st. Westminster 5 July 1842 to death, chapel was rebuilt 1863; chairman of Congregational Union 1862; established day schools and a school for the reformation of criminals in Westminster; took an active part in management of Westminster hospital 1845–72 to which he presented communion plate 1869; author of Discourses to youth 1843; The extra work of a London pastor 1863; edited The useful arts, their birth and development 1851. d. 19 Belgrave road, London 5 July 1878. J. E. Ritchie’s London Pulpit 2 ed. (1858) 110–7; Waddington’s Congregational History, v 593–6 (1880); Illust. news of the world (1862), portrait.
MARTIN, Sir Samuel (2 son of Samuel Martin of Culmore, Newton Limavady, co. Londonderry). b. 23 Sep. 1801; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1821, M.A. 1832, hon. LL.D. 1857; special pleader 1828–9; barrister M.T. 29 Jany. 1830, bencher 1843 to 1850 and Nov. 1878 to death; Q.C. April or May 1843; M.P. for Pontefract 1847–50; baron of court of exchequer 6 Nov. 1850, retired 22 Jany. 1874; serjeant-at-law 7 Nov. 1850; knighted at Windsor Castle 13 Nov. 1850; common law comr. 30 April 1857, the report is dated 31 July 1857; doctor of laws, Durham, Sep. 1857; tried Franz Müller for murder of Mr. Briggs 27–29 Oct. 1864; P.C. 2 Feb. 1874. d. 132 Piccadilly, London 9 Jany. 1883. bur. Brompton cemetery 13 Jany. A generation of judges. By their reporter (1886) 83–94; Times 10 Jany. 1883 p. 6 cols. 1–2; I.L.N. lxxxii 61 (1883), portrait; Baily’s Mag. xl 173–74 (1883); Illust. Times 5 Nov. 1864 p. 289, portrait.
MARTIN, Samuel Dickinson. b. Leeds 12 June 1803; an engineer and surveyor there 1824 to death; surveyed many railway lines; a leading arbitrator in compensation cases; founded Yorkshire and north of England land agents and surveyors’ association, pres. of it; A.I.C.E. 6 March 1849. d. Harrogate, Yorkshire 26 Sep. 1877.
MARTIN, Thomas. M.R.C.S. 1810, hon. F.R.C.S. 1844; general medical practitioner at Reigate, Surrey; member of the Provincial medical and surgical association; started and edited The Institute: a journal of medical, surgical and obstetrical science and practice and philosophical gazette 2 vols. 1850–1; presented by his admirers at Reigate with his portrait about Aug. 1851. d. Reigate 12 Feb. 1867 aged 87. Medical Circular, i 45–6 (1852), portrait.