Modern English biography

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.