Modern English biography

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.