Note.—She had no sense of taste or smell, she bequeathed her head to the Phrenological society, there was a statue of her unveiled in the South meeting house Boston, U.S. of America 26 Dec. 1883.
MARTINEAU, Robert Braithwaite (son of Philip Martineau, taxing master to the court of chancery). b. 99 Guildford st. London 19 Jany. 1826; ed. at Univ. coll. London; articled to a solicitor 1842–6; student at the R.A. 1848; pupil of W. Holman Hunt; exhibited 11 pictures at the R.A. 1852–67; his large picture entitled The last day in the old home, was exhibited at International exhibition, London 1862, re-exhibited in London 1864 and reproduced as a large photograph; an exhibition of his pictures and drawings was held in summer of 1869 at Cosmopolitan club, 30 Charles st. Berkeley sq. d. 13 Feb. 1869. F. T. Palgrave’s Essays on art (1865).
MARTINEAU, Sir Thomas (eld. son of Robert Martineau of Birmingham). b. 1828; ed. at Edgbaston proprietary sch., head of the school; articled to Arthur Ryland of Birmingham, solicitor 1846–51, partner with Ryland to his death; member of Birmingham law society, chairman; retired from practice 1 Jany. 1893; member of town council 1876 to death, alderman 1883, mayor 1884–7; received the Queen on her laying the foundation stone of Victoria law courts 23 March 1887; knighted at Windsor Castle 25 March 1887. d. Westhill, Augustus road, Edgbaston, Birmingham 28 July 1893. Edgbastonia, iv 1–4 (1884), portrait; Law Journal 5 Aug. 1893 p. 550.
MARTINS, Sir William (son of W. Martin). b. 1800; one of the gentlemen ushers quarterly waiters in ordinary to the sovereign 11 March 1829 to death; knighted at St. James’s palace 19 Feb. 1840. d. 3 Hyde park gardens, London 5 June 1874, personalty sworn under £350,000 22 Aug. 1874. I.L.N. lxiv 595 (1874).
MARTLEY, Henry. Ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1824, M.A. 1832; called to Irish bar Easter term 1828; Q.C. 17 Aug. 1841; bencher of King’s Inns, Jany. 1854 to death; chief comr. of encumbered estates court at salary of £3000 a year, Feb. 1857 to death. d. Sherrington near Bray 3 March 1859.
MARTON, George (eld. son of George Richard Marton of Capernwray hall near Lancaster, d. 1834). b. 31 March 1800; ed. at Westminster 1815–7 and Trin. hall, Camb.; M.P. for Lancaster 1837–47; gentleman of the privy chamber 1843; sheriff of Lancashire 1858. d. 24 Nov. 1867.
MARTYN, Francis Mountjoy. b. 1809; cornet 2 life guards 27 Dec. 1827, lieut.-col. 27 Nov. 1857, sold out 6 March 1863; brevet colonel 29 Aug. 1858; changed his name from Martin to Martyn 1830. d. London 24 Jany. 1874.
MARUM, Edward Purcell Mulhallen (only son of Richard C. Marum of Aharney house, Ballyraggat, co. Kilkenny). b. 1828; ed. at Carlow college; B.A. London 1844, LL.B. 1848; called to Irish bar 1846; contested Kilkenny city, April 1875; M.P. for co. Kilkenny, April 1880 to 18 Nov. 1885; M.P. for North Kilkenny 3 Dec. 1885 to death; seized with an attack of heart disease while attending mass at Listowel parish church 21 Sep. 1890, removed to police barracks adjoining the church where he d. 21 Sep. 1890. St. Stephen’s Review 12 April 1890 p. 23, portrait.
MARVIN, Charles Thomas (son of Mr. Marvin, assistant manager of engineering works on the Neva, Russia). b. Plumstead, Kent 1854; joined his father in Russia 1870 where he remained till 1876; correspondent of The Globe at St. Petersburg 18 months; a temporary writer in the custom house, London 10 Jany. 1876, transferred to inland revenue department, Somerset House, May 1876 and thence to the post office, returned to the custom house; entered the foreign office 16 July 1877; arrested 26 June 1878 for furnishing The Globe with a summary of the secret treaty with Russia 29 May 1878, discharged 16 July as he had committed no offence known to the law; contributed to 20 publications during the Russo-Turkish war 1878; sent to Russia by Joseph Cowen, M.P., to interview principal generals and statesmen on the Russo-Indian question; explored the Russian petroleum region in the Caucasus 1883; author of The eye-witnesses account of the disastrous campaign against the Akhal Tekke Turcomans 1880; Merv the queen of the world and the scourge of the man-stealing Turcomans 1881; The Russians at the gates of Herat 1885, of which 65,000 copies were sold in England and America, and 12 other books. d. Grosvenor house, Plumstead Common, Kent 4 Dec. 1890. Times 17 July 1878 p. 11, 5 Dec. 1890 p. 6; London Figaro 13 Dec. 1890 p. 11, portrait.
MARWOOD, William. b. Horncastle, Lincolnshire 1820; a cobbler at Horncastle; first employed as public executioner at Lincoln 1871; his long-drop system of hanging was very successful; hanged Henry Wainwright 21 Dec. 1875, Charles Peace 25 Feb. 1879, Kate Webster 29 July 1879, Percy Lefroy Mapleton 29 Nov. 1881, G. H. Lamson 28 April 1882. d. Church lane, Horncastle 4 Sep. 1883. bur. Trinity ch. 6 Sep. The life of W. Marwood (1883), portrait; Illust. police news 15 Sep. 1883 pp. 1–2, portrait; St. Stephen’s Review 3 Nov. 1883 pp. 9, 20, facsimile of his letter; Entracte Annual (1882) 26–7; Law Journal 8 Sep. 1883 p. 490.