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.