MARTIN, Thomas (son of John Nickleson Martin of Wollaton, Notts.) b. 11 Dec. 1787; entered navy March 1799; captain 2 Aug. 1826; admiral on half pay 9 Feb. 1864. d. 1 Nov. 1868.
MARTIN, Sir Thomas Byam (4 son of Henry Martin baronet, comptroller of the navy 1733–94). b. Ashstead house, Surrey 25 July 1773; entered navy April 1786; captain 5 Nov. 1793; commanded the Tamar in the West Indies 1797, captured 9 privateers in 5 months; had a large share in capture of the Russian ship Sewolod 26 Aug. 1808, for which he received cross of Swedish order of the Sword; R.A. 1 Aug. 1811; second in command at Plymouth 1813–4; deputy comptroller of the navy Jany. 1815, comptroller 9 Feb. 1816 to 2 Nov. 1831; admiral 22 July 1830, vice admiral of the U.K. 1847, admiral of the fleet 13 Oct. 1849 to death; M.P. for Plymouth 1818–32; K.C.B. 2 Jany. 1815, G.C.B. 3 March 1830; one of elder brethren of Trinity house 1833 to death. d. the Dockyard, Portsmouth 21 Oct. 1854, portrait in United service club. O’Byrne’s Naval biog. dict. (1849) 735–6; Georgian Era, ii 252 (1833).
MARTIN, William (brother of John Martin 1789–1854). b. the Twohouse in Haltwhistle, Northumberland 21 June 1772; worked in a ropery at Hawdon dock 1794–5 and 1809–10; served in the Northumberland regiment of militia 1795–1805 and 1810; studied perpetual motion from 1805; went to London 1808, exhibited and sold his patent for perpetual motion; founded the Martinean Society 1814 based upon the negation of Newtonian theory of gravitation; styled himself Anti-Newtonian from 1821; lectured throughout England 1830; designed models for a lifeboat and a lifebuoy, a self-acting railway gate and a design for a high-level bridge over the Tyne; author of Harlequins’ invasion, a new pantomime engraved and published by W.M. 1811; A new system of natural philosophy on the principle of perpetual motion, with a variety of other useful discoveries 1821; W. M.’s Challenge to the whole terrestrial globe as a philosopher and critic and poet and prophet 1829, 2 ed. 1829; A short outline of the philosopher’s life from being a child in frocks to the present day 1833, with portrait; An exposure of a new system of irreligion called the new moral world promulgated by R. Owen, Esq., whose doctrine proves him a child of the devil 1839, and other books. d. at his brother’s house, Lindsey house, Chelsea, London 9 Feb. 1851. G.M. i 327–8 (1851), i 433 (1854); M. A. Richardson’s Local historian’s Table Book, iii 137–8 (1842), iv 366.
MARTIN, William. b. Ewell near Epsom 10 March 1750. d. St. Pancras parish, London 14 Nov. 1852 aged 102. bur. in the old church St. Pancras. I.L.N. xxi 548 (1852).
MARTIN, William (natural son of Jane Martin, laundress). b. Woodbridge, Suffolk 1801; master in a school at Uxbridge to 1836; returned to Woodbridge 1836, delivered lectures and wrote articles for the magazines; issued Peter Parley’s Annual 1840 to death, six other writers adopted the same pseudonym; author of numerous educational works under name of Peter Parley, a series of Household tracts for the people under name of Old Chatty Cheerful and many under his own name. d. Holly lodge, Woodbridge 22 Oct. 1867.
MARTIN, Sir William (youngest son of Henry Martin). b. Birmingham 1807; ed. at Birmingham gr. sch. and St. John’s coll. Camb., scholar 1826–31, fellow 1831–8; 26th wrangler, 4th classic and second chancellor’s medallist 1829; B.A. 1829, M.A. 1832; barrister L.I. 24 Nov. 1836; chief justice of New Zealand 5 Feb. 1841, resigned 12 June 1857, the New Zealand government granted him pension of £333 6s. 8d. by special act 10 Aug. 1858; settled at Auckland 1859; D.C.L. Oxford 14 July 1858; knighted by patent 24 May 1860; author of Inquiries concerning the structure of the Semitic language 2 vols. 1876–8. d. Torquay 18 Nov. 1880. W. Gisborne’s New Zealand Rulers (1886) 12–14, portrait; Foreign church chronicle, March 1881.
MARTIN, William Charles Linnæus (son of Wm. Martin, naturalist 1767–1810). b. 1798; superintendent of museum of Zoological Society of London, Oct. 1830 to 1838; F.L.S.; author of A natural history of quadrupeds 1840; The history of the dog 1845; The history of the horse 1845; An introduction to the study of birds, n.d.; A general history of humming-birds with reference to the collection of J. Gould 1852 and other books. d. Dacre park terrace, Lee, Kent 15 Feb. 1864.
MARTIN-LEAKE, Stephen (eld. son of Stephen Ralph Martin Leake 1782–1865, assistant secretary to the treasury). b. 19 March 1826; ed. at King’s coll. London and St. John’s coll. Camb., 20th wrangler 1848; pupil of Edward Bullen; barrister M.T. 26 Jany. 1853; author of The elements of the law of contracts 1867, new ed. 1878; Elementary digest of law of property of land 1874; Digest of the law of uses and profits of land 1888; author with Edward Bullen of Precedents of pleadings in actions in the superior courts of common law 1860, 3 ed. 1868. d. Marshalls, High Cross, Ware, Herts. 7 March 1893. bur. Thorpe-le-Soken, Essex. Solicitors’ Journal 25 March 1893 p. 359.
MARTINEAU, Arthur. b. 1807; ed. at Trin. coll. Camb., fellow 1831–6, B.A. 1829, M.A. 1832; V. of Whitkirk near Leeds 1838–63; V. of Alkham with Capel, Kent 1863–4; R. of St. Mildreds, Bread st., with St. Margaret Moyses, London 1864 to death; chap. to Bp. of London, June 1865; preb. of St. Paul’s cath. 1866 to death; chap. to Abp. of Canterbury 1869 to death; author of No need of a living infallible guide in matters of faith (four sermons). Leeds 1850; Church history of England from the earliest times down to the Reformation 1853, 2 ed. 1854. d. Cannes, France 11 Nov. 1872.
MARTINEAU, Harriet (youngest child of Thomas Martineau, camlet manufacturer, who d. June 1826). b. Norwich 12 June 1802; ed. at rev. Isaac Perry’s sch. Norwich 1813–5; awarded 45 guineas by Central Unitarian Association for three essays intended to convert the Catholics, the Jews and the Mahommedans, Sep. 1830 and May 1831; her Illustrations of political economy 9 vols. 25 numbers Feb. 1832 to Feb. 1834 were very successful; suggested and managed Thomas Carlyle’s first course of lectures 1837; travelled the U.S. of America 1834–6; given a testimonial by her friends 1843; cured of a serious illness by mesmerism 1844 and mesmerised patients herself, gave an account of her case in Letters on mesmerism 1845 first published in the Athenæum; lived at Norwich to 1832, at 17 Fludyer st. Westminster 1833–9, at Newcastle 1839–45; built a house called The Knoll at Clappersgate near Ambleside, Westmoreland 1845–6, lived in it 7 April 1846 to death; travelled in Egypt and Palestine 1846–7; wrote for Charles Knight The history of England during the thirty years peace 2 vols. 1848–9; published Letters on the laws of man’s social nature and development, Jany. 1851, chiefly written by her friend Henry G. Atkinson; wrote upwards of 1600 articles for the Daily News 1852–66, also some articles for the Edinburgh Review after 1859; author of Society in America 1837; Retrospect of western travel 1838; Deerbrook, a novel 1839; The philosophy of Comte, freely translated and condensed 2 vols. 1853, and many other books. d. The Knoll, Clappersgate 27 June 1876. bur. beside her mother in the old cemetery, Birmingham. H. Martineau’s Autobiography, with memorials by M. W. Chapman (1877), portrait; Maclise Portrait gallery (1883) 206–12, portrait; Harriet Martineau. By Mrs. Fenwick Miller (1884); James Payn’s Some literary recollections (1884) 97–136; W. H. D. Adams’s Celebrated women travellers (1882) 404–17; R. H. Horne’s New spirit of the age, ii 65–75 (1844), portrait; S. J. Hale’s Woman’s Record 2 ed. (1855) 739, portrait; J. S. Bushnan’s Miss Martineau and her master (1851); Cornhill Mag. Jany. and Feb. 1884; Graphic, xiv 44, 46 (1876), portrait, xxviii 197 (1883), portrait; British medical journal 14 April 1877 p. 449.