Modern English biography

_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.