Chapter XXXV: Part 35

MARSHALL, HENRY (son of John Marshall). _b._ Kilsyth,
Stirlingshire 1775; ed. at Glasgow univ.; surgeon’s mate in
royal navy, May 1803; assistant surgeon in Forfarshire militia
Jany. 1805 and in 89th foot April 1806; assistant surgeon 2
Ceylon regiment 1809, surgeon 1 Ceylon regiment 1813–21, staff
surgeon in North Britain 1821–3 at Chatham 1823–5 and at Dublin
1825–8; deputy-inspector general of hospitals on h.p. 22 July
1830; investigated with Sir A. M. Tulloch statistics of the
sickness, &c. of the British army 1835–6; the first hon. M.D.
of New York univ. 1847; F.R.S. Edinb.; author of Notes on the
medical topography of the interior of Ceylon 1821; On the
enlisting, the discharging and pensioning of soldiers 1832, 2
ed. 1839; Ceylon, a general description of the island 1846.
_d._ Edinburgh 5 May 1851. _John Brown’s Horæ Subsecivæ_ (1858)
225–90; _Edinb. Med. and Surg. journal_, _lxxvi_ 489–92 (1851).

MARSHALL, HENRY. _b._ 1795; attorney at Godalming, Surrey 1816
to death; mayor of Godalming 1836 and six times afterwards;
clerk of the peace for Surrey, Oct. 1856 to 1872; registrar of
Guildford county court 1856–69. _d._ High st. Godalming 23 Sep.
1874. _bur._ Farncombe cemetery near there 28 Sep. _Solicitors’
Journal_, _xviii_ 904 (1874).

MARSHALL, HUBERT. _b._ 1804 or 1805; entered Madras army 14 Sep.
1824; lieut. 33 Madras N.I. 11 Nov. 1826, major 5 July 1854;
deputy secretary to government military department 1852 to 1869;
lieut.-col. 8 Madras N.I. 2 Jany. 1860 to 1861; lieut.-col. 18
Madras N.I. 1861–3; lieut.-col. 33 Madras N.I. 1863–5; general 1
Oct. 1877. _d._ Newton house, Dalkeith 3 May 1880.

MARSHALL, JAMES (son of a doctor at Rothesay, Bute, who _d._
1806). _b._ Rothesay 23 Feb. 1796; ed. at Paisley gr. sch. and
univs. of Glasgow and Edinb.; minister of Outer high church,
Glasgow 1819–28; minister of Tolbooth ch. Edinb. 1828, resigned
29 Sep. 1841; ordained by bishop of Durham as curate of Norham,
Durham 19 Dec. 1841; R. of St. Mary-le-Port, Bristol 1842–7;
secretary to newly founded Lay readers’ association 1845; P.C.
of Ch. Ch. Clifton, May 1847 to death; edited Letters of the
late Mrs. Isabella Graham of New York 1839; author of Inward
revival or motives and hindrances to advancement in holiness.
Edinb. 1840; Early piety illustrated in the life and death of a
young parishioner. _d._ Vyvyan terrace, Clifton 29 Aug. 1855.
_Memoir by Rev. James Marshall_ (1857); _Scott’s Fasti_, _vol._
1 _pt._ 1 _p._ 52 (1866).

MARSHALL, SIR JAMES (2 son of preceding). _b._ Edinburgh 19
Dec. 1829; lost his right arm through a gun accident; matric.
from Ex. coll. Oxf. 3 Feb. 1848; B.A. 1851, M.A. 1854; C. of
St. Bartholomew’s, Little Moorfields, London 1854–7; joined
Church of Rome, Nov. 1857; procurator and precentor in R.C.
ch. Bayswater, London; classical master at Oratory school,
Birmingham 1863; barrister L.I. 27 Jany. 1868; practised at
Manchester; chief magistrate of the Gold Coast and assessor to
the native chiefs May 1873; raised levies in Ashanti war 1874;
senior puisne judge of supreme court of the Gold Coast, Nov.
1876, chief justice 1879 to 1882; knighted at Windsor Castle
29 June 1882; executive comr. for West African colonies at
Colonial exhibition 1886; C.M.G. 28 June 1886; chief justice of
territories of royal Niger company 1887; knight commander of St.
Gregory the Great, June 1889. _d._ Margate 11 Aug. 1889.

MARSHALL, JAMES. _b._ 1806; founded business of Marshall and
Snelgrove, drapers and silk mercers at 11 Vere st. Oxford st.
London 10 April 1837, they employed nearly 1800 hands in 1887,
in 1800 the largest haberdasher’s shop in London employed only
16 persons; in 1893 they were silk mercers at 10 to 20 Vere st.,
334 to 348 and 352 and 354 Oxford st., 14 to 20 Henrietta st.
Cavendish sq., 2 to 24 Marylebone lane, and at Scarborough and
Leeds. _d._ Goldbeaters, Millhill, Hendon, Middlesex 22 Nov.
1893, leaving personal estate of the net value of £719,116.

MARSHALL, JAMES GARTH (3 son of John Marshall of Headingley,
Leeds, M.P. for Yorkshire 1826–30). _b._ Leeds 20 Feb. 1802;
ed. at univ. of Edinb.; member of firm of Marshall and Co. of
Holbeck, Leeds and Shrewsbury, flax spinners, the former of
these mills is described in Disraeli’s ‘Sybil’ 1845; M.P. for
Leeds 30 July 1847 to 1 July 1852; F.G.S. 1833; A.I.C.E. 1
May 1838; sheriff of Yorkshire 1860. _d._ Monk Coniston near
Ambleside 22 Oct. 1873. _Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E.
xxxviii_ 317–20 (1874).

MARSHALL, JOHN, LORD CURRIEHILL (son of John Marshall of
Garlieston, Wigtonshire). _b._ Wigtonshire 7 Jany. 1794; ed.
at univ. of Edinb.; called to Scotch bar Nov. 1818; purchased
estate of Curriehill in Midlothian; dean of faculty of advocates
March 1852; a judge of court of session with title of Lord
Curriehill 3 Nov. 1852 to Oct. 1868. _d._ Curriehill near
Edinb. 27 Oct. 1868. _Crombie’s Modern Athenians_ (1882) 123–4,
_portrait_.

MARSHALL, JOHN, LORD CURRIEHILL (eld. son of preceding). _b._
Edinburgh 15 Oct. 1827; ed. at Edinb. academy and univs. of
Glasgow and Edinb.; called to Scotch bar 1851; a member of
general council of univs. of Edinb. and Glasgow; a judge of
court of session with title of Lord Curriehill 29 Oct. 1874 to
death; chancellor’s assessor of Edinb. univ. court; author of
Analysis of titles to land consolidation (Scotland) act 1868.
Edinburgh 1869. _d._ Curriehill near Edinb. 5 Nov. 1881.

MARSHALL, JOHN (2 son of Wm. Marshall of Ely, solicitor).
_b._ Ely 11 Sep. 1818; studied at Univ. coll. London 1838–44;
M.R.C.S. 1844, F.R.C.S. 1849; demonstrator of anatomy at Univ.
coll. about 1845, extra assistant surgeon 1847, professor of
surgery 1866–85, Emeritus professor 1885 to death; consulting
surgeon to Univ. college hospital 1884; member of council of
R.C.S. 1873, pres. 1883, representative of the college in
general council of medical education 9 June 1881 to death, pres.
of the council 10 May 1887 to death; Bradshaw lecturer 1883,
Hunterian orator 1885, Morton lecturer 1889; F.R.S. 11 June
1857; pres. of royal medical and chirurgical society of London
1882–3; lectured on anatomy to art students at Marlborough
House 1853; professor of anatomy at royal academy 16 May 1873
to death; introduced the galvano-cautery and operation of the
excision of varicose veins; Fullerian professor of physiology
at the royal institution 4 years; invented system of circular
wards for hospitals; author of A description of the human body,
its structure and functions 1860, 4 ed. 1883; The outlines of
physiology, human and comparative 3 vols. 1867; Anatomy for
artists 1878, 3 ed. 1890; A rule of proportion for the human
figure 1878. _d._ 92 Cheyne walk, Chelsea 1 Jany. 1891. _bur._
at Ely 6 Jany., bust by Thomas Brock, R.A. in Univ. coll.
London; memorial painted glass window placed in choir of Ely
cathedral by his widow Jany. 1894. _Proc. of royal soc. xlix pp.
iv–vii_ (1891); _I.L.N. lxxxiii_ 77 (1883), _portrait_.

MARSHALL, MARY. _b._ England 1813; played columbine in
Barrymore’s pantomime of Davy Jones’s Locker at Drury Lane, Dec.
1830; the original White Cat in J. R. Planché’s extravaganza
at Covent Garden, Easter 1842; played Lazarillo to James
Wallack’s Don Cæsar de Bazan at Princess’s 8 Oct. 1844; played
soubrettes in comedy at Lyceum; played Fortunio in Planché’s
burlesque Fortunio at Sadler’s Wells 22 April 1851; acted the
leading parts in Frank Talfourd’s burlesques at Strand theatre,
May 1851 to May 1852; played at Princess’s under Charles Kean
1853–5; made her début in America at Burton’s theatre, New York
1856; first appeared in Philadelphia at National theatre 6 July
1857; returned to England 11 Sep. 1862; always known as Polly
Marshall; _m._ Mr. Zerman. _d._ 1 D’Israeli terrace, Disraeli
road, Putney 17 Nov. 1878. _The Era 24 Nov. 1878 p._ 5.

NOTE.--Her brother Joseph Marshall, harlequin at Drury Lane theatre, afterwards ballet master at T.R. Manchester _d._ 30 Nov. 1873.

MARSHALL, MATTHEW. First assistant cashier of Bank of England
1829–35, cashier 1835–64. _d._ Emersham house, Beckenham, Kent
30 June 1873.

MARSHALL, THOMAS FALCON. _b._ Liverpool, Dec. 1818; contributed
4 pictures to Liverpool academy exhibition of 1836; removed to
London about 1847; exhibited 60 pictures at R.A., 40 at B.I. and
42 at Suffolk st. gallery 1839–78; his best works are in South
Lancashire; his picture The Coming Footstep 1847 is at South
Kensington museum. _d._ 46 Victoria road, Kensington, London 26
March 1878.

MARSHALL, THOMAS HORNCASTLE (3 son of rev. Thomas Horncastle
Marshall, V. of Pontefract, Yorkshire, _d._ 1841 aged 84). _b._
Marston 1 March 1800; barrister G.I. 14 Nov. 1821, bencher Jany.
1850 to death, treasurer 1851; revising barrister for north
Northumberland 1832; deputy judge and steward of Court of Honor
of Pontefract; judge of county courts, circuit No. 14 (Dewsbury,
Leeds, Pontefract and Wakefield), March 1847 to death; drew or
suggested several sections of County Courts act 9 & 10 Vict.
cap. 45 (1846); author of A letter to lord Brougham on county
courts, writs of prohibition and certiorari 1855. _d._ St.
Leonards 18 Feb. 1875.

NOTE.--He libelled by means of a pamphlet an attorney at Leeds called Barret, for which a jury gave Barret 40/-damages at York assizes April 1856.

MARSHALL, THOMAS WILLIAM (son of John Marshall, government agent
for colonising New South Wales). _b._ 1818; ed. at Trin. coll.
Camb., B.A. 1840; P.C. of Swallowcliffe and Anstey, Wiltshire
1841–5; joined Church of Rome 1845; an inspector of schools 16
Dec. 1848; published Tabulated reports on Roman Catholic schools
inspected in the south and east of England and in South Wales
1859; granted cross of order of St. Gregory by Pius IX. for his
Christian missions, their agents, their method and their results
3 vols. 1862; lectured in the U.S. of America about 1873; LL.D.
Georgetown college. _d._ Surbiton, Surrey 14 Dec. 1877. _J.
Gondon’s Motifs de conversion de dix ministres Anglicans pp_.
20–37; _J. Gondon’s Conversion de cent cinquante ministres
Anglicans pp._ 90–102.

MARSHALL, WILLIAM (brother of James Garth Marshall 1802–73).
_b._ 26 May 1796; ed. at Eton and St. John’s coll. Camb.,
B.A. 1819, M.A. 1824; barrister I.T. 6 Feb. 1824; M.P. for
Petersfield 1826–30, for Leominster 1830, for Beverley 1831, for
Carlisle 1835–47 and for East Cumberland 1847–68. _d._ 32 St.
Georges road, Eccleston sq. London 16 May 1872.

MARSHALL, WILLIAM (son of Wm. Marshall of Oxford, music seller).
_b._ Oxford 1806; chorister of chapel royal, London; organist to
Ch. Ch. Oxf. 1825–46, organist to St. John’s coll. Oxf. 1825–46;
Mus. Bac. Oxf. 1826, Mus. Doc. 1840; organist of St. Mary’s,
Kidderminster 1846 to death; published Three Canzonets 1825;
Cathedral Services. Oxford 1847; author of The art of reading
church music Oxford 1842; A collection of anthems used in the
cathedral and collegiate churches of England and Wales 1840, 4
ed. 1862; edited with Alfred Bennett A collection of cathedral
chants 1829. _d._ Handsworth, Birmingham 24 Aug. 1875.

MARSHALL, WILLIAM. _b._ hamlet of Meadowmore, Perthshire 1807;
ed. at Glasgow univ. 1820–2; minister of united secession
church, Coupar-Angus, Perthshire 28 Dec. 1830 to death; edited
The Dissenter, 12 monthly numbers Jany. to Dec. 1833; secretary
of the Voluntary church association; helped to bring about union
of relief and secession churches 1847; moderator of united
presbyterian synod 1865; D.D. New York univ. June 1865 and
Hamilton univ. July 1865; presented with £1500 by his friends
29 Oct. 1872; author of Men of mark in British church history
1875; Historic names in Forfarshire 1875; Historic scenes in
Perthshire 1880. _d._ Coupar-Angus 22 Aug. 1880. _Mc Kelvie’s
Annals of the United presbyterian church p._ 609.

MARSHALL, WILLIAM HENRY. _b._ 1793; entered Bengal army 1810;
ensign 17 Bengal N.I. 12 June 1813, lieut. 1816; captain 35 N.I.
10 Oct. 1825, major 2 April 1834 to 4 Jany. 1841; lieut.-col.
of 34 N.I. 4 Jany. 1841 to 1845, of 73 N.I. 1845–46, of 34
N.I. 1846–50, of 32 N.I. 1850–51; col. of 32 N.I. 15 March
1851 to 1861, of 3 N.I. 1861 to death; L.G. 23 July 1865. _d._
Southport, Lancashire 29 Jany. 1868.

MARSHAM, HENRY SHOVELL JONES. _b._ 28 Jany. 1794; entered navy
17 May 1807; captain 24 Dec. 1833; retired R.A. 21 Oct. 1856;
retired admiral 18 Oct. 1867. _d._ Hayle place near Maidstone 26
Oct. 1875.

MARSHAM, ROBERT BULLOCK (eld. son of hon. and rev. Jacob
Marsham, canon of Windsor 1759–1840). _b._ 17 June 1786; ed.
at Eton and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1807, M.A. 1814, D.C.L. 1826;
fellow of Merton coll. 1812–26, dean 1824, warden 1826 to death;
barrister L.I. 20 May 1813; recorder of Rochester to 1826;
contested univ. of Oxf. July 1852. _d._ Caversfield house near
Bicester 27 Dec. 1880. _bur._ north transept of Merton college
chapel 1 Jany. 1881. _I.L.N. lxxviii_ 37 (1881), _portrait_;
_Law Times_, _lxx_ 161 (1881).

MARSHMAN, JOHN CLARK (eld. son of Joshua Marshman, orientalist
and missionary 1768–1837). _b._ Aug. 1794; went with his father
to Serampur near Calcutta 1800; directed his father’s religious
undertakings from 1812; started the first paper mill in India;
founded with his father the first newspaper in Bengali, the
Sumachar Durpun 31 May 1818, also the first English weekly paper
The Friend of India 1821; spent £30,000 on the Serampur college
for the education of natives; official Bengali translator to the
government, resigned and returned to England 1852; chairman of
committee of audit of East India railway; C.S.I. 8 Dec. 1868;
contested Ipswich 1857, Harwich 1859 and Marylebone 1861; author
of The history of India 1842, 5 ed. 1860; Marshman’s Guide to
the civil law of the presidency of Fort William, translated into
Urdu by J. J. Moore 2 vols. 1845–6, 2 ed. 1848; The life and
times of Carey, Marshman and Ward, embracing the history of the
Serampore mission 2 vols. 1859; The history of India from the
earliest period to the close of Lord Dalhousie’s administration
3 vols. 1863–7, 2 ed. 1867. _d._ 2 Redcliffe sq. Kensington,
London 8 July 1877.

MARSON, JOB (son of Job Marson of Malton and Beverley, horse
trainer). _b._ Belle Vue training stables near Malton,
Yorkshire; won the St. Leger on Nutwith 1843, on Van Tromp 1847
and on Voltigeur 1850; won the Derby on Voltigeur 1850 and on
Teddington 1851, beating 32 horses, being more than had ever
before ran in the Derby; rode for lord Eglinton, lord George
Bentinck and sir Joseph Hawley. _d._ Middleham 11 Sep. 1857.
_Sporting Review_, _xxxiii_ 1–6 (1855), _portrait_, _xxxviii_
238–40 (1857); _Rice’s History of the British turf_, _i_ 267
(1879); _I.L.N. xxii_ 417 (1853), _portrait_.

MARSTON, CHARLES DALLAS. _b._ 1824; ed. at Eton and Caius coll.
Camb., scholar, B.A. 1849, M.A. 1852; P.C. of Ch. Ch. Hougham
in Dover, Kent 1850–62; R. of St. Mary, Marylebone, London 5
July 1862 to 1866; R. of Kersall Moore near Manchester 1866–73;
V. of St. Paul, Onslow sq. Kensington 1873 to death; author of
Manual of the inspiration of scripture 1859; Expositions on the
epistles 1865; Advent sermons 1865; The four gospels, their
diversity and harmony 1866; Fundamental truths 1866; Victory and
service, illustrated by sermons on Joshua 1871. _d._ East Sheen,
Surrey 12 Aug. 1876.

MARSTON, G., stage name of G. Marsh (dau. of John Baptiste
Noel). _b._ Castle st. Oxford st. London, Feb. 1810; first
appeared in public 18 Aug. 1826 as Annette in Blue Devils at
Catherine st. theatre; played in the provinces to 1830; (_m._
1830 Henry Marston 1804–83); lived in retirement 1830–44;
played most of the old women’s parts in Phelps’s Shakespearean
and other revivals at Sadler’s Wells 1844–59, her best parts
were the Nurse in Romeo and Juliet, Pauline in A Winter’s tale
and Dame Quickly in Henry the fifth; played Widow Green in The
love chase at Haymarket 15 Oct. 1857, the Duenna Dorothea in
Oxenford’s Monastery of St. Just at Princess’s 25 June 1864,
and Madame Deschapelle in The lady of Lyons at Lyceum 16 Sep.
1867. _d._ 5 March 1887. _Tallis’s Drawing room table book_,
_part_ 14, _portrait_; _Theatrical times_, _ii_ 169, 194 (1847),
_portrait_.

MARSTON, HENRY, stage name of Richard Henry Marsh (son of a
physician). _b._ Highworth, Wiltshire, March 1804; ed. at
Winchester; appeared as Romeo at Southampton 18 Aug. 1824, and
as Florian in The foundling of the forest at Salisbury 18 June
1825; made his début in London at Drury Lane 30 Oct. 1839 as
Benedick in Much ado about nothing; acted Triboulet the jester
in W. E. Burton’s The Court Fool at Sadler’s Wells 11 May 1840;
took a leading part in Samuel Phelps’s Shakespearean revivals at
Sadler’s Wells 1844–61, made a great success as Mephistopheles
in Faust; played Iago at Princess’s 18 June 1863, Frank Rochford
in Westland Marston’s Pure Gold at Sadler’s Wells 10 Nov. 1863,
Charles V. in Oxenford’s The monastery of St. Just at Princess’s
25 June 1864; acted Henry IV. at Drury Lane 24 Sep. 1864,
Belarius in Cymbeline at Queen’s 30 March 1872, and Sergius
Dentatus in Virginius at Queen’s 20 April 1872; played Farmer
Dodd in C. Wilson’s Lost or Found at Holborn 21 Dec. 1872; a
special performance of Much ado about nothing was given at
Lyceum theatre for his benefit 29 May 1879; master of the Urban
lodge of freemasons to 25 Feb. 1870; elected annuitant on royal
masonic benevolent institution 16 May 1879. _d._ 4 Lidlington
place, Oakley sq. London 23 March 1883. _bur._ Highgate cemet.
_Tallis’s Drawing room table books_, _parts_ 9 _and_ 18, 2
_portraits_; _Theatrical times_, _i_ 201 (1847), _portrait_;
_Illust. sp. and dr. news_, _xi_ 280, 318 (1879), _portrait_.

MARSTON, JOHN WESTLAND (son of Stephen Marston, baptist
minister). _b._ Boston, Lincs. 30 Jany. 1819; articled to
his maternal uncle a London solicitor 1834; edited with John
Saunders The National Magazine, vols. 1 and 2, 1856–7; author
of the following plays The patrician’s daughter produced
at Drury Lane 10 Dec. 1842; The heart and the world 1847;
Strathmore 1849; Philip of France and Marie de Miranie 1850;
Anne Blake 1852; A life’s ransom, Lyceum 16 Feb. 1857; A hard
struggle, Lyceum 1 Feb. 1858; The wife’s portrait, Haymarket
15 March 1862; Pure Gold, Sadler’s Wells 10 Nov. 1863; Donna
Diana, his best play Princess’s 16 Jany. 1864; The favourite of
fortune, Haymarket 2 April 1866; A hero of romance, Haymarket 14
March 1868; Life for life, Lyceum 6 March 1869; Lamed for life,
Royalty 12 June 1871; Put to the test, Olympic 24 Feb. 1873;
Under fire, Vaudeville 1 April 1885; contributed much poetical
criticism to the Athenæum from about 1863; LL.D. Glasgow univ.
1863; received £928 from a benefit performance of Werner at
Lyceum theatre 1 June 1887; author of Gerald, a dramatic poem,
and other poems 1842; A lady in her own right: a novel 1860;
Family credit and other tales 1861; The wife’s portrait and
other tales 1869; Dramatic and other works, collective edition
2 vols. 1876; Our recent actors 2 vols. 1888. _d._ at his
lodgings, 191 Euston road, London 5 Jany. 1890. _bur._ Highgate
cemet. _R. H. Horne’s New spirit of the age_, _ii_ 159–86
(1844); _T. Powell’s Pictures of living authors of Britain_
(1851) 201–206; _I.L.N. 25 Jany. 1890 p._ 111, _portrait_;
_London Figaro 18 Jany. 1890 p._ 6, _portrait_.

MARSTON, PHILIP BOURKE (only son of the preceding). _b._ 123
Camden road villas, Camden Town, London 13 Aug. 1850; lost his
eyesight 1853; author of Song-Tide and other poems 1871; All
in all 1875; Wind Voices 1883; For a song’s sake and other
stories 1887; Garden Secrets 1887; A last harvest 1891; he is
the subject of a poem by Mrs. Craik entitled Philip my King,
and of a poem by T. G. Hake entitled The blind boy. _d._ 191
Euston road, London 13 Feb. 1887. _Memoirs of P. B. Marston. By
L. C. Moulton and W. Sharp, prefixed to A last harvest_ (1891)
_and For a song’s sake_ (1887); _The collected poems of P. B.
Marston, with biographical sketch and portrait_ (1892).

MARTEN, THOMAS. _b._ 1797; cornet 2 life guards 22 Nov.
1813, captain 4 May 1822; captain 1 dragoons 14 April 1825,
lieut.-col. 29 May 1835 to 4 Feb. 1853 when placed on h.p.; col.
6 dragoons 12 Nov. 1860 to death; L.G. 16 Feb. 1862; K.H. 1837.
_d._ Beverley, Yorkshire 22 Nov. 1868.

MARTIN, ALBINUS. _b._ Beckington, Somerset 21 March 1791; an
architect; erected with S. Beasley the first English opera
house in Wellington st. Strand opened 15 June 1816; manager and
resident engineer of London and Southampton railway 1836–49; a
consulting engineer 1849–64; M.I.C.E. 5 June 1849. _d._ 17 Oct.
1871. _Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxxiii_ 223–26 (1872).

MARTIN, EDWARD. _b._ Brenchley, Kent 24 Nov. 1814; played his
first match at Lord’s Marylebone _v._ Hampshire 26 June 1843;
played for Kent and Hampshire; generally called The Veteran;
dealer in cricketing appliances and keeper of a cricket ground
at Oxford. _d._ 29 Oct. 1869. _Lillywhite’s Cricket scores_,
_iii_ 152 (1863).

MARTIN, FRANCIS OFFLEY (4 son of Henry Martin of Colston Basset,
Notts., M.P. for Kinsale and master in chancery, who _d._ 19
July 1839). _b._ 22 March 1805; ed. at Charterhouse and Caius
coll. Camb.; barrister L.I. 19 May 1829; assistant tithe comr.;
an inspector of charities 1857 to 7 Dec. 1872; second charity
comr. for England and Wales 7 Dec. 1872 to death. _d._ 89 Onslow
gardens, London 4 Dec. 1878.

MARTIN, FREDERICK. _b._ Geneva 19 Nov. 1830; secretary and
amanuensis to Thomas Carlyle from 1856 for some years; started
The Statesman, a biographical mag. in which he began an account
of Carlyle’s early life; started The statesman’s year book 1864,
edited it to Dec. 1882; granted civil list pension of £100, 21
April 1879; author of The life of John Clare 1865; Stories of
banks and bankers 1865; Commercial handbook of France 1867;
The story of Alec. Drummond of the 17th lancers 3 vols. 1869;
Handbook of contemporary biography 1870. _d._ 22 Lady Margaret
road, Kentish Town, London 27 Jany. 1883. _bur._ Highgate cemet.
1 Feb.

MARTIN, GEORGE (2 son of rev. Joseph Martin of Ham court,
Worcs., canon residentiary of Exeter cathedral 1796–1815). _b._
1789; ed. at New coll. Oxf., B.A. 1813, M.A. 1818; preb. of
Exeter cath. 15 Sep. 1815 to death; chancellor of the diocese
1820 to death; V. of Harberton, South Devon 22 June 1820 to
death; principal of training sch. Exeter (the first in England)
Oct. 1839, which began Feb. 1840, first stone of new college
laid 19 May 1853; cut his throat at Harberton vicarage 27 Aug.
1860. _G.M. ix_ 437 (1860).

MARTIN, GEORGE. Proprietor of Royal Oak park grounds,
Manchester. _d._ 21 Oct. 1865 aged 39. _Illust. sporting news_,
_iv_ 533, 545 (1865), _portrait_.

MARTIN, GEORGE. _b._ 1806; clerk in office of John James,
secondary of City of London; clerk in the city solicitors’
office; assistant clerk at Mansion House justice room 1850–55;
chief clerk at the Guildhall, June 1855, retired on full salary
1882. _d._ 2 Cromwell gardens, Kensington, London 30 Dec. 1887.

MARTIN, GEORGE ANNE. _b._ 1807 or 1808; L.S.A. 1828; M.R.C.S.
1830; M.D. Edinburgh 1837; L.R.C.P. 1840; practised at Ventnor,
Isle of Wight 1838 to death; author of The Undercliff, Isle of
Wight: its climate, history and natural productions. 1849. _d._
Belgrave house, Ventnor 7 Jany. 1867.

MARTIN, GEORGE BOHUN. _b._ 21 March 1799; entered navy 11 April
1815; captain 19 April 1828; captain of Victory 101 guns, flag
ship at Portsmouth 26 Sep. 1851 to 23 Dec. 1852; superintendent
of Deptford dockyard 10 Jany. 1853 to death; C.B. 13 Nov. 1827.
_d._ Nottingham 14 Oct. 1854. _G.M. xlii_ 627 (1854).

MARTIN, GEORGE WILLIAM. _b._ London 8 March 1828; chorister
at St. Paul’s cathedral; one of the choir boys at Westminster
Abbey at coronation of Queen Victoria 1838; professor of music
at Normal college for army schoolmasters; resident music master
at St. John’s training college, Battersea 1845–53; the first
organist of Ch. Ch. Battersea 1849; established the National
choral society 1860, by which he maintained a series of oratorio
performances at Exeter hall some years; conducted the National
schools choral festival at Crystal Palace 1859; organised in
Jany. 1864 a choir of 1000 voices for the Macbeth music at
three hundredth anniversary of Shakespeare’s birth 23 April
1864; composed Is she not beautiful? 1845 and other glees for
which he obtained many prizes. _d._ Bolingbroke House hospital,
Wandsworth, London 16 April 1881. _bur._ by the parish in Woking
cemetery.

MARTIN, HARRIET LETITIA (dau. of Richard Martin 1754–1834,
known as Humanity Martin, M.P. for co. Galway 1801–26). _b._
London 5 July 1801; when staying in Paris wrote a tale entitled
Canvassing, which was appended to Michael Banim’s novel The
Mayor of Windgap 1835; author of a novel called The Changeling,
a tale of the year ’47, 1848. _d._ Dublin 12 Jany. 1891.

MARTIN, HENRI. _b._ Marseilles, France 1793; visited London and
the provinces as a lion tamer 1831–32, performed at Drury Lane
theatre, retired 1840; curator of Rotterdam zoological gardens;
figures in several novels of Honore Balzac and Eugene Sue. _d._
Overschie near Rotterdam, April 1882. _I.L.N. 15 April 1882._

MARTIN, HENRY (son of Mr. Martin of North st. Brighton,
saddler). _b._ Ringmer, Sussex 10 May 1813; a saddler in
Brighton; councillor for the Pavilion ward on the Incorporation
of the town May 1854 to death, alderman Jany. 1859 to death,
mayor 1865–66, a magistrate 23 Jany. 1873 to death; author of
The history of Brighton and environs 1871. _d._ 5 Powis sq.
Brighton 24 April 1885. _Sussex Daily News 25 April 1885 p._ 6
_cols._ 3–4.

MARTIN, HENRY AUSTIN. _b._ London 23 July 1824; graduated
at Harvard medical school 1845; practised at Boston,
Massachusetts; staff surgeon in the Federal army 1861; rose to
be surgeon-in-chief of the second corps of army of the Potomac;
introduced into U.S. of America the practice of true animal
vaccination 1870 which was universally adopted; invented pure
rubber bandage for treatment of ulcers 1877; performed operation
of tracheotomy without tubes many times; contributed largely to
Lancet and other medical journals. _d._ Boston 7 Dec. 1884.

MARTIN, SIR HENRY BYAM (2 son of sir Thomas Byam Martin
1773–1854). _b._ 1803; midshipman on board the ‘Liffey’ 50 guns
Oct. 1818; captain 28 April 1827; captain of Duke of Wellington
130 guns, and commodore in the western squadron 1 Feb. 1853 to
4 March 1854; aide de camp to the Queen 10 Oct. 1853 to 13 July
1854; served for a short time as flag officer in Baltic fleet
for which he was made K.C.B. 5 July 1856; admiral 15 June 1864.
_d._ Genoa 9 Feb. 1865.

MARTIN, HUGH (son of Alexander Martin). _b._ Aberdeen 11 Aug.
1822; ed. at Aberdeen gr. sch. and Marischal coll., M.A. 1839;
B.D. Edinb. April 1872; free church minister at Panbride near
Carnoustie 1844–58; minister of Free Greyfriars, Edinb. 1858
to June 1865 when he retired owing to ill health; examiner in
mathematics for degree of M.A. in univ. of Edinb. 1866–8; author
of Christ’s presence in the gospel history 1860; A study of
trilinear co-ordinates 1867; National education 1872; The shadow
of Calvary 1875; The Westminster doctrine of the inspiration of
scripture 1877, 5 ed. 1877. _d._ Lasswade near Edinburgh 14 June
1885.

MARTIN, JAMES. Partner in Martins & Co. bankers, 68 Lombard st.
London. _d._ Chiselhurst common, Kent 17 Aug. 1878, personalty
under £500,000, 28 Sep. 1878.

MARTIN, SIR JAMES (son of John Martin of Fermoy, Ireland). _b._
Middleton, co. Cork 14 May 1820; taken to New South Wales 1821;
admitted solicitor of the supreme court 10 May 1845; member
for Cork and Westmoreland in the legislative assembly 1848–59,
member for East Sydney, Orange, the Lachlan, East Sydney and
East Macquarie successively 30 Aug. 1859 to 19 Nov. 1873;
attorney general 26 Aug. 1856 to 2 Oct. 1856 and 7 Sep. 1857
to 8 Nov. 1858; called to the bar of N.S.W. 6 Sep. 1856; Q.C.
1857; prime minister and attorney general 16 Oct. 1863 to 2 Feb.
1865, 22 Jany. 1866 to 26 Oct. 1868 and 15 Dec. 1870 to 13 May
1872; knighted by patent 4 May 1869; chief justice of supreme
court of N.S.W. 19 Nov. 1873 to death; author of The Australian
Sketch-book. Sydney 1838. _d._ Clarens near Sydney 4 Nov.
1886. _G. B. Barton’s Poets of New South Wales_ (1866) 64–82;
_Australian portrait gallery_ (1885) 37, _portrait_.

MARTIN, SIR JAMES RANALD (son of rev. Donald Martin of Kilmuir,
Isle of Skye). _b._ Kilmuir 1793; studied at St. George’s
hospital, London 1813–7; M.R.C.S. 1817, F.R.C.S. 1843; surgeon
Bengal army 1817; surgeon to governor-general’s body-guard 1821;
served in first Burmese war; practised at Calcutta from 1826,
presidency surgeon 1830, retired 20 May 1840; practised in
Grosvenor st. London 1840; physician to council of India 1859
to death; inspector general of army hospitals; F.R.S. 1845;
C.B. 25 April 1860; knighted at St. James’s palace 20 June
1860; author of Notes on the medical topography of Calcutta.
Calcutta 1837, A brief topographical and historical notice of
Calcutta. Privately printed 1847; author with James Johnson of
The influence of tropical climates on European constitutions
1841, 8 ed. 1861. _d._ 37 Upper Brook st. London 27 Nov. 1874.
_Medical Circular_, _iv_ 101–105 (1854), _portrait_; _Barker’s
Photographs of medical men_ (1865), _portrait_; _Medical
times_, _ii_ 647–8 (1874); _I.L.N. lxv_ 547, 551, 552 (1874),
_portrait_; _Graphic_, _x_ 586, 600 (1874), _portrait_.

MARTIN, JOHN (son of Fenwick Martin, fencing master). _b._
Haydon Bridge near Hexham, Northumberland 19 July 1789; a
painter on china and glass in London 1806; historical and
landscape painter; exhibited pictures at the R.A. from 1812;
historical painter to Princess Charlotte and Prince Leopold
1817; his finest work Belshazzar’s Feast obtained premium of
£200 at British Institution 1821, the picture was repeated on
glass and exhibited as a transparency in the Strand; an original
member of Soc. of British Artists 1824; exhibited The fall of
Nineveh at Brussels 1833 which was bought by Belgian government;
member of Belgian academy and knight of order of Leopold; many
of his works were engraved, some by himself; received sum of
£2000 for his illustrations to Milton’s Paradise Lost; his three
large pictures of the Apocalypse were exhibited after his death
at the Hall of Commerce, 52 Threadneedle st. city of London, and
at chief cities in England. _d._ Douglas, Isle of Man 17 Feb.
1854. _Redgrave’s Century of painters_, _ii_ 424–37 (1866); _W.
C. Monkhouse’s Masterpieces of English art_ (1869) 120–6.

NOTE.--His eldest daughter Isabella Mary materially assisted her brother-in-law Joseph Bonomi the curator of the Soane museum, Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London, in his official duties during the later years of his life, she died 23 March 1880.

MARTIN, JOHN (son of John Martin of 112 Mount st. Grosvenor
sq. London, _d._ 1836). _b._ 16 Sep. 1791; bookseller at 13
Old Compton st. Soho 1811–15, at 23 Holles st. Cavendish sq.
1815–6, at 46 New Bond st. 1816–9; partner with John Rodwell
at 46 New Bond st. 1819–26, retired 1826; secretary to the
Artists’ Benevolent fund 1833–45; librarian to duke of Bedford
at Woburn abbey, Bedfordshire 1836 to death; F.S.A. and F.L.S.;
edited Gray’s Bard 1837 and Gray’s Elegy 1839 and 1854; author
of Bibliographical catalogue of books privately printed 1834, 2
ed. 1854; History and description of Woburn and its abbey 1845;
Enquiry into the authority for a statement in Echard’s History
of England regarding William, lord Russel. Privately printed
1852, published 1856. _d._ Froxfield near Woburn 30 Dec. 1855.
_bur._ in Eversholt churchyard. _G.M. xlv_ 317 (1856).

MARTIN, JOHN. _b._ 1789; physician in city of London some
years; laid down meteorological charts representing the varying
aspects of months, seasons and years from daily observation;
edited An account of the natives of the Tonga Islands in the
South Pacific ocean, with an original grammar and vocabulary
of their language. Compiled and arranged from the extensive
communications of Mr. William Mariner several years resident in
those islands 2 vols. 1817, 2 ed. 1818 reprinted as vol. xiii of
Constable’s Miscellany. _d._ Lisbon 8 July 1869.

MARTIN, JOHN. _b._ near Kennington church, London 10 July 1796;
a baker by trade, always called by the reporters the Master of
the Rolls; fought and beat George Oliver 18 July 1813; beat Jack
Scroggins £100 a side, 65 rounds in 2 hours at Moulsey Hurst 18
Dec. 1818; beaten by Jack Randall at Crawley Downs 4 May 1819;
beaten by Randall again £300 a side at same place 11 Sep. 1821;
beaten by Edward Turner 100 guineas a side, 40 rounds in 67
minutes at Wallingham common 26 Oct. 1819; beat Jack Strong
otherwise Cabbage 100 guineas a side, 75 rounds in 72 minutes
at Farnham Royal, Bucks. 28 March 1820; beat Edward Turner £100
a side, 60 rounds in 78 minutes at Crawley 5 June 1821; beaten
by Samuel Evans £100 a side, 16 rounds in 71 minutes at Knowl
Hill, Berkshire 4 Nov. 1828; won 9 out of 14 fights; landlord
of the Crown at Croydon many years; kept the Horns tavern at
Kennington, London; retired first to St. Albans and afterwards
to Devonshire; became a total abstainer and vegetarian. _d._
1871 or 14 Aug. 1868. _H. D. Miles’s Pugilistica_, _i_ 395–41
(1880), _portrait_; _The Fancy. By An Operator_, _i_ 201–5
(1826), _portrait_.

MARTIN, JOHN (2 child of Samuel Martin of Longhorne, parish
of Donoughmore, co. Down). _b._ Longhorne 8 Sep. 1812; ed. at
Newry and Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1834; a member of the Repeal
Association, expelled having joined the secession of the Young
Ireland party; contributed to The United Irishman newspaper;
issued The Irish Felon, successor to The United Irishman 24
June 1848 to 22 July 1848, surrendered to the police 8 July
1848, tried for treason-felony and sentenced to 10 years
transportation 19 Aug. 1848, arrived in Van Diemen’s Land Nov.
1849, granted a conditional pardon 1854, resided in Paris Oct.
1854 to June 1856 when granted an unconditional pardon; returned
to Ireland 1858, established with The O’Donoghue the short-lived
National League; contested co. Longford, Dec. 1869; joined the
Home government association for Ireland, May 1870; M.P. for co.
Meath, Jany. 1871 to death; known in Ireland as Honest John
Martin; paid secretary to Home Rule league, hon. sec. 1874. _d._
Dromalane house near Newry 29 March 1875. _P. A. Sillard’s Life
and letters of John Martin_ (1893).

MARTIN, JOHN (eld. son of John Martin of Overbury court, Worcs.
1774–1832). _b._ 2 Feb. 1805; member of firm of Martins & Co.
bankers 68 Lombard st. London; M.P. for Tewkesbury 1832–5 and
1837–59; contested Tewkesbury 6 Jany. 1835. _d._ the Upper hall,
Ledbury 7 March 1880.

MARTIN, JOHN (2 son of rev. Samuel Martin, V. of Warsop, Notts.)
_b._ 10 Oct. 1807; ed. at Rugby; solicitor in Lincoln’s Inn,
London 1830 to death; founded a national school in Baldwin’s
gardens, Holborn; an active member of the Church Association;
promoter of great ecclesiastical suit of Martin _v._
Mackonochie 1867–76, always refused to take any steps to obtain
imprisonment of the defendant; chairman of committee of Colonial
and Continental church society. _d._ 9 Montagu place, Russell
sq. London 16 May 1885.

MARTIN, JOHN (son of Francis Martin of Davieland, dean of
faculty of procurators in Paisley). _b._ 23 July 1811; a writer
to the signet in Edinburgh 6 March 1834; principal clerk of
session 1880 to death. _d._ 19 Chester st. Edinburgh 26 March
1893.

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_.

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.

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_.