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.

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.

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.

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.