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HISTORY

OF THB

MARTIN FAMILY

BY

STAPLETON MARTIN, M.A.,

OP

CHRIST'S COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE,
Barbistbb-at-Law.

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Tell ye your children of it, and let yonr children tell their children,
and their children another generation. — Jobl i. 3.

''Out of monumentB, names, words, proverbs, and eridences,
fragments of stories, passages of books, and the like, we do save and
recover somewhat from the deluge of time.'' — Lard Baem,

Dedicated

TO

MY WIFE
AND CHILDREN;

The Fms,
Norton,

Worcester.

November^ 1908.

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OF THE

MARTIN FAMILY.

TN early times the name of Martin was well-known

at Leicester. Samuel Martin, of Leicester (City),

had a son, the £ev. Samuel Martin, born in 1674,

Foster's

who matriculated from Lincoln College, Oxford, ^^^^^^
17th November, 1692, when aged 18, taking his B.A.
degree in 1696. He married in Loughborough Parish
Church, in Leicestershire, on 20th August, 1700,
Mrs. Elizabeth Crumpton, and had a son, the
Eev. Samuel Martin, baptized in Loughborough
Parish Church on 5th Sept. 1701, who matriculated
from Lincoln College, Oxford, when aged 17. He ^<^8
was admitted B.A. from Lincohi College on 13th ^K^^"*"'
October, 1722, and became M.A. in 1725, and was^etha^so?,

' ' ' 1866.

elected a Fellow of Oriel College, Oxford, on 19th
April, 1723. Taking his M.A. degree on 10th July, ^f^j^
1725, he vacated his Fellowship on 26th March, 1731, ^^- ^'^^'
by resignation, having been instituted to the living
of Newton Eegis, Warwickshire, on 7th April, 1730.
He was Master of Appleby School, Leicester, from

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1725 to 1739, when he resigned, and the trustees
thereupon were anxious to appoint Samuel Johnson,
who was just rising into fame through his celebrated
satire, London^ to the mastership ; but there was a
diflSculty owing to his not being M.A. Macaulay, in
his life of Johnson, says that : ** Pope exerted himself
"Notes md to obtalu au academical degree and the mastership

QnerieB,"

^Fei)ruaiy, of a grammar school for the poor young poet."
12th September, Johusou did uot obtain the appointment. In 1746

1908. p.204. -. ,-«--. . . , , -rk P

Samuel Martm was mstituted to the Bectory of
Gotham, Notts, on 17th September, 1746, and he
resigned the living of Newton Eegis in 1747, and so
remarkable was the resignation of a benefice in the
days when pluralities abounded, that the fact is
referred to in his monumental inscription.

On 14th October, 1741, Samuel Martin, of Gotham,
married in Newton Begis Church by license, Anne
Hunter, daughter of the Eev. John Hunter (who was
in 1704 appointed to be Headmaster of Lichfield
Grammar School), by his first wife. Miss Norton,
daughter of Edward Norton, of Warwick, and sister
of the Eev. Thomas Norton, of Warwick.

In 1766 he published a book entitled, ** A disser-
tation of the nature and efiects and consequences of
the blasphemy against the Holy Ghost." It is a
piece of carefully considered and conscientious work
wherein the arguments advanced are expressed in
terms of scrupulous exactness by a thoroughly well-
trained, balanced and educated mind.

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By an Indenture dated 22nd July 1772, certain
hereditaments situate in Lenton, Kadford and Bash-
ford, in the County of Nottingham, were settled to
the use of Samuel Martin, of Gotham, for his life,
with remainder to his sons in tail.

Samuel Martin, of Gotham, died on Christmas
Day, 1775. The following is an extract from the
Nottingham Journal for Saturday, 30th December,
1775 :—

^^ Last Monday morning died, after a long Illness, at
'^ Gotham, near this Town, in the 76th year of his age, the
^'Eev. and learned Mr. Samuel Martin, Rector of that
'^ (dace ; which valuable Rectory he had enjoyed about thirty
'^ years. He was buried at Gotham.''

There is a tablet in Gotham Church, Notts, to his
memory, as under : —

Samuelis Martin, A.M.

Collegii Orielis — ^in Academia Oxonienssi Quondam Socii

Florentissimse ScholsB de Appleby in agro Leiceste, Magister

simul celeberrimus.

Qui mortem obiit natalibus Ohristi 1775 Aetat 75

HujuR Ecclesiae per annos 29 Rector Assiduus

Olim Rector ecclesise de Newton Regis in argo Yarvicansi,

Sed alterius emolumento modico satis superque contentus,

PublicsB providus utilitatis ac privatse non indecore prof usus,

Alteram (credite posteri !) lubens resignavit.

Agnoscas, Lector, viri eximiam pietatem,

Et mores apprimb spectatos,

Et in literis, cum sacris, tum humanioribus,

Hand mediocrem progressum ;

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At in h^ unidl laude prorsus haerens,

Flro oerte habens,

Quod quanto erat in terrennis opibus

Aceumilandis modestior,

Tanto splendidiorem in Ooslis

Ohristi Oratiii,
Notes on the
OimcheB of Sorfcietur ooronam.

Xv0ttlll£ll8illl~

$?g^2^ Underneath the tablet are the Coat of Arms argent

^% three talbots passant in pale sable.

He made his Will dated 20th September, 1770, and
thereby {inter alia) gave all those his messuages,
closes, lands, tenements and hereditaments situate,
lying and being in or near the Town of Birmingham,
in ye County of Warwick, to the use of his
beloved wife, Anne Martin, during her life, and after
her decease to the uses of a settlement made on the
marriage of his son, Samuel Martin (hereinafter
referred to as Prebendary Martin), and he gave all
those his lands and closes and his house with the
outhouses, bams, orchards and garden, and all that
close thereto adjoining in the town and liberty of
Woodhouse and the County of Leicester, with all
common privileges and appurtenances thereto
belonging to the use of his said wife during
her life and after her decease, to the said
Prebendary Martin to hold to him and his heirs
for ever, and all those his lands and closes within
the liberty of Newton Eegis, in the County of
Warwick, with all their privileges, commons and
appurtenances thereto belonging, and also all that

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his close in the liberty of Stowe, near Lichfield, in
the County of Stafford, formerly inclosed or taken
out of Gayfield, he gave to his said wife during
her life, and after her decease to his the said
Testator's son, Thomas Martin, to hold to him and
his heirs for ever. As to his the said Testator's half
share in sundry lands and tenements, situate, lying
and being in the liberty of Elmhirst, and the Grange
in the said liberty in the County of Stafford, and held
as tenant in common with his brother-in-law, the
Eev. Mr. Seward, by two leases for three lives under
the Eev. Theophilus Buckridge, Master of St. John's
Hospital, in the City of Lichfield, aforesaid, the said
Testator gave his said half share to the use of his said
wife during her life, and after her decease to
the use of his daughter, Anne Martin, and her heirs to
have and enjoy all that his right and property in the
said half share of the said leases for and during the
whole term of the same, and the said Testator gave
to his said daughter, Anne Martin, the sum of £1,000,
and after the discharge of the same to his said
daughter he gave the whole residue and remainder
to his said wife, whom he appointed sole Executrix
of his Will.

The Will was proved in the Consistory
Court of York on the 24th day of June, 1776,
by the said Anne Martin, widow, the relict of
the deceased.

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TSfrJS. One of Anne Martin's sisters, Elizabeth Hunter,

6^^&y, married the before-mentioned Thomas Seward when

1908, irom

^^^Tv^% he was Eector of Eyam, Derbyshire. He afterwards
itartin's. became aPrebendary of Lichfield and of Salisbury {see
D.N.B.), and was the father of Anna Seward, the well-
known authoress. {8ee D.N.B., and see " A. Swan and
Her FrieAds," by E. V.Lucas. Methuen&Oo. 1907.)
The six volumes of her letters published in 1811,
together with her poetical works, accompanied with
some part of her early literary correspondence and a
biographical memoir which were edited in three
volumes by Sir Walter Scott, throw much light on
the Martin's. For instance, a letter. Literary Corres-
pondence cxxx., 23rd June, 1764, was written from
Gotham when she was visiting her " excellent uncle
and Aunt Martin," as she styled them. She writes :
''Pious tranquillity broods over the kind and
hospitable mansion, and the balms of sympathy and
the cordials of devotion are here poured into our
torn hearts." This allusion is to the death of Sarah
Seward, a sister of Anna Seward's, who had just died
at the age of nineteen, on the eve of her marriage, of
whom she writes in the same letter : " My cousin.
Miss Martin, is of my sister's age, and was deservedly
beloved by her above all her other companions, next
to myself and Honora. She grieved for our loss and
her own with passionate tenderness."

In another letter, Literary Correspondence cxcv.,
written from Gotham in September, 1767, she writes

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of the only daughter of Samuel Martin, of Gotham :
" My fair cousin, Miss Martin, is really very near
being very handsome. Here she is most completely
buried through the dreary months. You used to
admire her eyes, which promise tenderness as lavishly
as your own, and to praise the sunny tint of her
nut-brown and shining tresses. Her understanding
is considerably above the common level ; but native
diflSdence, and enthusiastic partiality for her friends,
make her opinions, her taste and judgment, chameleon-
like, take all their tints from the sentiments of her
favourites, and she is uneasy if her very night -ribbon
is not tied like theirs.

'* On their head, no toy,
But is her pattern, her affection ; their
Unthought-of habits of attire, she follows
For her most serious decking.''

Dear girl ! heavily, with her, must drag the cold and
darkened months ! No sister, no companion out of
the parental character ! She tells us that she always
weeps for joy at the sight of the first daisy, and
welcomes and talks to, and hails the little blessed
harbinger of brighter days, her days of liberty as
well as of light."

Many other of the printed letters refer to the
Martin family. More particularly one dated 15th
July,1796,Letter xvi., written from Lichfield, wherein
Anna Seward writes of the " Loss of a dear friend,
and the nearest relation I possessed — ^for he was my

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first cousin — Mr. Martin (a son of Samuel Martin, of
Gotham), one of the most eminent of the merchants
engaged in the hosiery manufacture of Nottingham.
Intimately known to me from our mutual infancy,
there breathed not a man for whom I felt greater
esteem, or who more entirely merited the high repu-
tation he bore He was one that never thought

his purse his own if his friend needed it, I have not
found more truth and daylight in any human bosom
with an understanding which would have done credit
to any profession. I could tell you acts of bene-
ficence of his that w^re more than generous — they
were noble. Solicitously, tender and ardent in his
affections, there was a corresponding quickness in his
resentments ; but the violence was momentary — the
least show of kindness could instantly appease him."

*< He carried anger as the flint bears fire,
That much inf oroed shows an hasty spark,
And straight is cold again."

The letter goes on to state how apoplexy seized him
immediately after he had made an eloquent speech in
the County Hall, at Nottingham, in favour of the
necessitous poor that hard winter. He is described
as " the best of husbands." She adds : " Though my
beloved cousin was too generous, and lived with too
much elegant hospitality to be very wealthy, yet I
have reason to believe his wife, fifteen (thii» is a
mistake for ten) years younger than himself, and her
two little girls, will have a very genteel provision.

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Avoiding ostentatious expense she may render com-
petence plenty."

Samuel Martin, of Gotham, had issue three ^^^^®
children, viz: Samuel Martin (hereinafter referred SJ^ifj""'
to as Prebendary Martin), he was baptized at Newton g^jj^^ng
Eegis Church, 25th July, 1743 ; Anne Martin, who ^' '''^^^'
was baptized at Newton Eegis, 6th January, 1744 ; ^^^
and Thomas Martin, who was baptized at Gotham, 3i8tJiiiy,i784.
3rd April, 1749.

Mrs. Anne Martin, the widow of Samuel Martin,
of Gotham, died in Nottingham in July, 1784, and
was buried at Gotham. Her will is dated 4th
November, 1782, and was proved 5th July, 1785.

Anna Seward, in a letter dated 7th November,
1784 {see her Letters, Vol. I., p. 12), writes thus :
" Other agreeable excursions varied my late summer
days. Part of them, however, were tinged with the
gloom of regret by the death of my dear Aunt Martin,
whose striking likeness to my yet dearer mother,
whom I lost in the year 1780, increased the affection
which her virtues and long experienced kindness had
inspired. Now, on thia wide earth, no resemblance
remains to me of that loved form which gave me
birth, and which was of such acknowledged beauty,
even in waning age."

Anna Seward begins her Will thus : " I, Anne, or
as I kave generally written myself, Anna Seward, &c."
It must be all but certain that she was named after

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OoUinson's
mitoiyof
SomeiHetabiie.
Vol. L, 64.

11th Jnty, 1795.

her aunt, Anne Martin, the wife of Samuel Martin, of
Gotham.

The said Thomas Martin married Jane Michell, a
Somersetshire lady, whose father lived near Taunton.
Thomas Martin died 7th July, 1795, and was buried
in Sneinton Churchyard, near Nottingham, *' attended
by a very respectable retinue of his friends and
acquaintances.''

In Sneinton Churchyard, removed not more than
some half-dozen paces from the chancel wall, may be
seen a tall stone tomb, surmounted by an urn, and
standing within a large strongly-palisaded paved
square. This tomb bears inscribed tablets on both
sides and on both ends. The unhackneyed character
of the principal inscription, as follows, is the only
feature specially noteworthy to the passer-by : —

Rbadeb!
If thy Integrity ezdtes unhesitating Trust :
If thou fulfillest with Honour and Affection

the Duties of an Husband :
With solicitous Eondness those of a Parent :
With self forgetting Zeal those of a Friend :
With the most liberal Bounty those of Hospitality :

and
With the most melting Compassion those of Charity :
Then tho' the mortal Part of

Thomas Martin

Rests beneath this Marble :

Yet his Spirit lives in thy Bosom.

Died at Nottingham, July 7th, 1795.

Aged 46 Years.

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The opposite side of the tomb remembers Jane,
widow of the above Thomas Martin, who died at
Bath, 28th October, 1838, aged 79 ; also Jane, their
daughter, wife of John Adams, serjeant-at-law, who
died at Hampstead on 19th June, 1825, aged 34, and
was buried in St. Sepulchre's Church, London. One
end of the tomb commemorates an infant son
(Thomas), of Thomas and Jane Martin, who died
1st May, 1793 ; while the opposite end commemorates
George Dove, who died 8th October, 1813 (a mistake
for 1812), at the age of 36. He was a nephew of
Thomas Martin.

As shown on the tombstone, Thomas, son of
Thomas Martin and Jane Martin the elder, died an
infant on 1st May, 1793. Anna Martin (the daughter
of Thomas Martin and Jane Martin the elder) was
born in 1794. She died unmarried in February,
1867, at Bath, and was buried there.

The sisters of the writer of this book, now alive
(1908), say that they recollect her very well, and
Colonel Sir Eobert T. White-Thomson, Kt., K.C.B.,
of Exbourne, Devon, in letters to the writer of this
book, gives information about her with extracts from
his mother's diary.

It is shown by a letter of Anna Seward, dated
19th September, 1804, Letter axxiv., written from
Winterbourne, Gloucestershire, when on a visit to

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dated 22nd
Jannaij, 1908,
from burial
cerdfioateof
burials
belonging to
the Pariah of
Walcot

Mrs. Jane Martin, that the latter, after livmg at Bath,
purchased a property at Winterboume, " where she
had several social neighbours of our rank of life."
She goes at length in her letter to describe the very
ancient house which was once, she concluded, " the
residence of squiral opulence," with

^* Dim windows that exclude the light,
And passages which lead to nothing."

She also writes that "the little smart widow
moving in the fashionable circles at Bath," is become
a " notable farmeress."

On 28th October, 1838, Mrs. Jane Martin died
at Bath, and was buried at St. Saviour's Church,
in the Parish of Walcot, near Bath, aged 79.
It was as to the expected birth of Jane Martin
that Anna Seward, in one of her letters dated
27th October, 1790, Letter xiii., written to Mrs. Jane
Martin, refers : " I congratulate you upon the effects
of your tansy tea, and hope it will continue its
Lucinian powers. Perhaps you are not enough an
heathen to understand the epithet — to know that
Lucina is the goddess of child-bearing, whose protec-
tion it was usual to invoke in the days of Paganism.
.... Adieu, dear Mrs. M., may you have a little
longer health, succeeded by a comparatively little
portion of pain, and 'crowned with a little living
creature, who shall a great deal more than a little,
recompense everything ! "

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Jane Martin, the daughter, married in January,
1817, at Queen Square Chapel, Bath, John Adams
(as his second wife). He was a J. P., Chairman
of the Middlesex Magistrates (1836), and
Serjeant at-law, and he died 10th January, 1856,
aged 69, and had issue one child only, by Jane
Martin, viz. : The Rev. Henry Cadwallader Adams,
Vicar of Old Shoreham, who was born in 1817, and
who married in July, 1852, Esther Pell, daughter of
the Rev. R. Edmonds. They both died in 1899,
leaving four sons and one daughter. For an account
of the Adams' family set Boase's Modern English
Biography under Serjeant Adams, and in D.N.B.
under William Adams, and under Woollcombe-
Adams, of Ansty Hall, for the full pedigree see
Burke's Landed Gentry. Jane Adams, nk Martin,
died at Hampstead, 19th June. 1825, aged 34, and
was buried at St. Sepulchre's Church, Holbom,
London, as shown on the aforesaid tombstone at
Sneinton.

Anne Martin, the daughter of Samuel Martin, of
Gotham, was baptized at Gotham, 6th January, 1774.
She married at Gotham, 1st November, 1774, George
Dove, M.D., who lived in the Parish of St. Mary,
Nottingham, although he appears to have originally
come from the County of Durham. In 1775, 1776
and 1777, three successive George Dove's, bom of
these parents, were baptized at St. Mary's Church.
The two first, of course, enjoyed but brief existences,

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their burial being duly recorded. The third George
was the one buried at Sneinton, as we have seen

Register of

Sjtriesinst from the tombstone there. There was another son,

Mary a Untiroh, '

Md^fS^m Thomas Dove. George Dove, the doctor, died in

JowTMiX for 4tih,

November, 1780. March, 1780, at Lisbon, having "embarked a few
weeks ago for the capital, in hopes of recovering
strength from a long indisposition. He resided in this
town some time, and as a physician gained great
reputation." (Extract from the Nottingham Journal^
18th March, 1780.) ffis Will, dated 26th December,

1779, was proved at York, 9th September, 1780.
Mrs. Ann Dove died in November, 1780, and was
buried at St. Mary's, Nottingham. There is a. brass
on the floor of St. Mary's Church, Nottingham,
recording her death and that of her two infants.

Mrs. Ann Dove (inter alia) by her Will dated
the 20th of July, 1780, devised and bequeathed
all and singular her messuages, closes, lands,
tenements and hereditaments, and parts and
shares of the same, situate, lying and being in the
town of Nottingham and in the liberty of Elmhirst,
and the Grange in the said liberty in the County of
Stafford, and in the County Palatine of Durham or
elsewhere freehold, copyhold or leasehold, and all her
personal estate upon trust for the benefit of her
" two sons and only children," George and Thomas
Dove. The Will was proved at York, 6th December,

1780. George Dove, the son, died 8th October,
1812, aged 36. His Will dated 30th September,

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1812, was proved at York 3rd June, 1813, which
states that his brother Thomas was dead. It appears
clear from their Wills that they both died bachelors.

Thomas Martin made his Will dated 16th
February, 1788, which is a very lengthy document,
and {inter alia) bequeathed £50 to " Mrs. Ann Bliss,
wife of the Rev. Mr, Bliss (increased to £100 by his
first codicil), and sister to the testator's wife, and he
devised certain lands and hereditaments at Sheffield,
in the County of York, and at Newton Eegis, in the
County of Warwick, or elsewhere in the Kingdom of
Great Britain, to his Trustees upon trust for sale for
the benefit of his widow and his children. By a
codicil dated 20th April, 1792, he devised his
messuages and hereditaments in the town of Notting-
ham, which he had purchased since he made his
Will, on the same trusts as those devised thereby in
his Will, and he made a short second codicil in his
own handwriting dated 6th May, 1795. The Will
and two codicils were proved at York on 9th October,
1 795, by his widow.

The Eev. Samuel Martm, eldest son of Samuel 1^^^?"*°

OoIlOffB,

Martin, of Gotham (hereinafter referred to as Pre- g°^ggf«e.
bendary Martin), was baptized at Newton Eegis
Church, 25th July, 1743. He was examined and
approved by Mr. Beresford, and admitted a pensioner
10th June, 1760, of St. John's College, Cambridge.
His tutor was Dr. Powell. He became a Fellow of
St. John's in 1766, being a curate at Enderby,

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Co. Leicester. From 1767 till his death he was
Eector of the oldest church in Nottingham, viz. :
St. Peter's, and was installed to the Prebendary of
Scamblesby in Lincoln Cathedral on 13th October,
aJSSTsist 1775. He was also appointed Eector of Tollerton,

September, 1782. * *

Notts., 1st June, 1782.

&eas to
the other

Sdir w^ght, H® married Elizabeth, eldest daughter and co-
IjBj^eU' heiress of John Smith, of Nottingham, by Elizabeth,
daughter of Langford Nevill, by licence, at St. Peter's
Church, on 27th February, 1769. She died and was
buried at St. Peter's Church, 1st September, 1779.
He was buried there on 19th September, 1782.

The Nottingham Journal for 28th August, 1779,
records this death : " Yesterday morning, of the lady
of the Rev. Mr. Martin, Eector of St. Peter's, in this
town, and one of the Prebends of Lincoln. The
character of a Christian wife, and parent, she
discharged with piety, love, and maternal fondness.
Her deportment through life was truly respectable,
and her behaviour remarkably affable. Such pleasing
endearments as these must certainly stamp a deep
impression on the hearts of her surviving relations
and friends, for the loss of so amiable a woman ; nor
will the poor less sensibly feel for her dissolution,
when they even consider how often their wants and
distresses have been relieved by her bountiful hand."

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The Nottingham Journal for 14th September,
1782, states that: "On Thursday, the Rev. Mr.
Martin, of this town, in company with two other
gentlemen, partook of the diversion of angling, a
little distance from Stoke Bardolph, in the neighbour-
hood ; the evening advancing when Phoebus ceased
to shine, they agreed to return to Nottingham, and
kept together till they reached the above village,
where the Divine stopt to converse with an inhabi-
tant for a few minutes ; his friends riding forward,
he, in attempting to overtake them, was unfortunately
thrown off his horse, by turning too near the corner
of a house, and pitching upon his head, ruptured a
blood vessel, and expired within an hour. He was
attended by his servant, but such was the injury he
received from the fall that his presence afforded him
no relief. The mother of the deceased gentleman is
inconsolable, and a tender offspring, young in years,
are materially affected by the shocking event, having
lost a father, an instructor, a patron, and a friend.
The above gentleman was universally respected by
his parishioners, some of whom (on hearing the
melancholy tale) let fall their tributary tears. He
was a Prebend of Lincoln, Masterof Arts of St. John's
College, Cambridge, Eector of St. Peter's, in this
town, and of Tollerton, in this county. In the year
1767 he was inducted to the former living, and within
these few months to the latter. He was a gentleman
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critic in the Greek and Hebrew languages." The
same newspaper, oae week later, tells that:
"On Thursday last, 12th September, 1782, the
remains of the Eev. Mr. Martin were deposited in
St. Peter's Church."

Prebendary Martin made his Will dated 5th June,
1782, and thereby {inter alia) devised certain heredita-
ments in or near Birmingham to his brother Thomas
and the Eev. William Inge, of The Close, Lichfield, in
trust for his eldest son, Samuel Martin, of Warsop, in
fee simple. He devised certain hereditaments at
Basford, Badford and Lenton, Notts., to his other
sons successively, and certain hereditaments in the
Low Pavement in the town of Nottingham to his other
sons successively, and he devised " my messuage or
tenements and land situate and being at Woodhouse,
in the County of Leicester, of which I am entitled to
the reversion in fee expectant on the death of my
mother, unto my son, John Martin, and his heirs."
There was a gift, in each case of his named sons dying
under 21, to the other sons in a similar way. He
gave, in case of failure of his own issue, an estate at
WUford, Co. Notts., to the right heirs of his late dear
wife. He bequeathed his personalty to his sons
equally. The Will was proved at York on 27th
December, 17S2.

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In St. Peter's Church there are the monuments to
Prebendary Martin and to his wife : —

In Sepulchro sub hac Area ooncamerato

Quod sibi guisque Dormitorium esse voluit

Heu ! jam oonditur Puerperii Doloribus exhausta

Elizabetha Samuelis Martin fidissuna Conjuz

Johannis Smith Armig. filia natu maxima

Mors tamen rapaz baud inermen^ invasit

Sed Pietate ae Fide Obristinum munitam

Quale erat Ingenium
Quanta probitas Mansuetudo Benevolentia
Tesiantur Amicorum Desideria superstitum

Amplissimiss potiora Elegis

Oalend Septemb aj>. 1779.

A TrcmdciHon qfthe above is : —

In the vault under this spot, which she desired should be
the resting-place of herself and her family, now lies, alas
Elizabeth, the faithful wife of Samuel Martin, and eldest daughter
of John Smith, Esq.

Insatiable death snatched her, not unprepared, but armed
with piety and Christian Faith.

To her natural qualities, her uprightness, gentleness and
benevolence, the regret of her surviving friends bears witness
more powerful than many Elegies.

1st September, ▲.d. 1779.

In memoriam Samuelis Martin, artium magistri, prius
collegii Sancti Joannis, Cantab, socii, hujus ecclesisB, tamquam
Tollerton comitatu Notts., rectoris, ecdesisB cathedralis Lincoln-
iensis prsebendarii, qui ex casu de equo suo mortuus est, cum
uxorem suam Elizabetham tres annos superstitaverat.

nat. MDOCXLIII. ob. MDCOLXXXII.

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" Notes on St.
Maiy'B Pariah
Register,
Nottingham,"
by John T.
Cfodfrey, 1901.
pp. 63 and 64.

Rngby Sdiool
Register.

Admissions
to St. John's
OoUege,
Oambiidge.

A Trcmalation of ike ahove U : —

In memory of Samuel Martin, Master of Arts, formerly

Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge, Kector of this church,

and also of Tollerton, Notts., a Prebendary of Lincoln Cathedral,

who died from a fall from his horse, having survived his wife

Elizabeth three years.

B. 1743. D. 1782.

Prebendary Martin had issue four sons. Samuel
Martin, of Warsop, who was baptized 3rd April,
1770, at St. Mary's Church, Nottingham; John
Martin, baptized at St. Peter's 28th December, 1772 ;
Edward Martin, baptized at St. Peter's 13th May,

1774, and buried there 15th September, 1786; and
Thomas Martin, baptized at St. Peter's 15th October,

1775, and buried there 24th December, 1783. John
Martin was alive in 1812, but the date of his death
cannot be ascertained.

Samuel Martin, of Warsop, was educated at
Eugby under Dr. James, and for the last two years
at Glasgow. He was admitted 9th June, 1788, at
St. John's College, Cambridge (tutor, Mr. Whitmore),
when he was aged 18, and was admitted a Fellow
Commoner 12th November, 1790. He was curate of
Warsop, Notts , for six years, and in 1806 he was
presented by Mr. Gaily Knight to the living which he
held for 53 years till his death. The following is an
extract from " Warsop Parish Registers, with Notes
and Illustrations," by the Eev. E. J. King. 1884 : —

'^ Samuel Martin had the spiritual oversight of the parish
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curate in charge for some six years during Francis Hume's
incumbency, and afterwards as rector for fifty-three years. He
seems to have been a man of most extreme liberality, and was
much beloved by his parishioners. Francis, his second son'
bought and presented the church clock to the parish in 1844.''

Samuel Martin, of Warsop, was a keen sportsman
as a fisherman and with the gun. Late in life he
kept a shooting pony but he never hunted. He and
his wife were very kind and hospitable, and they are
remembered with affection, even in the year 1907, as
a letter from the present Eector of Warsop informed
the writer of this book. There was always a good
table kept up at Warsop but very little drinking.
The rector hated smoking and not one of his six
sons ever smoked. Henry Gally-Knight, of Langold,
Yorkshire {see D.N.B. as to his son) was a Ufe-long
friend of his, whose wife was Selina, daughter of
William Fitz-Herbert, of Tissington Co., Derby M.P.,
the father of the 1st Baronet Fitz-Herbert, of Tissing-
ton. Her brother was created Lord St. Helens in 1791
and died unmarried in 1839, when the title became
extinct.

The Gally-Knights paid an annual visit to Warsop
Eectory; they entered the village preceded by an
outrider and all the village folk turned out to see the
show.

Samuel Martin, of Warsop, was reputed to be
richer than he really was, and a good story is told of
the then Duke of Portland who, on being asked to

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subscribe to some local charity, pleaded poverty and
suggested that his interviewer should go to the
rectory, saying, '* Mr. Martin has the money ! " His
wife had great tact, and on a stranger coming to dine
at the rectory she would adroitly draw hi m aside and
request he should not oppose her husband if the
subject of politics should be touched on, as he could
not bear opposition ; he was a violent Tory. Mrs.
Martin, of Warsop, who was born in 1776, was
married before sh§ was 20. She had three sisters :

w
S^dS^tiy b^* Osmaston Manor, and who died in 1873 ;

^^ctoasttm.- Frances Beresford and Judith Beresford, neither of
whom ever married. Their father was Francis
Beresford, of Ashbourne and Osmaston, by Fanny,
only daughter and heiress of Benjamin Beynolds, and
Francis Beresford's father was John Beresford, of
Bentley and Ashbourne (he was buried at Beresford
in 1755) and married Frances, daughter of John
Fitz-Herbert, of Somersall Herbert. She was buried
at Beresford in 1765 {see Glover's History of Derby-
shire, vol 2, p. 46, which sets out the pedigree from
John de Beresford, Lord of Beresford, 1087, down to
these sisters' births). They were co-heiresses of
large properties in Derbyshire (which included
Osmaston and Butterly Hall) and Cheshire, which
were sold under a trust of sale contained in an
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Samuel Martin, of Warsop, and Selina, his wife, of
the one part, and Marcus Martin and John Martin
of the other part. Mr. Wright bought up the
interest of his wife's sisters in these estates,
and obtained thereby the mines and minerals which
turned out when worked by the Butterly Company
(a private concern) to be so immensely valuable.

Samuel Martin, of Warsop, had a great dread lest
his sons should incur debts, and his idea of obviating
that was to give them generous allowances, which he
accordingly did,

Mrs. Martin, of Warsop, died in 1847, and the
Eector died at the rectory on 4th April, 1869. A "Gentleman's
tablet in the church records : — i^T^ti.

pp. 545-6.

'^ In the churchyard, 6 feet from the centre of the east chancel
window, lie interred the remains of Samuel Martin, rector of
this parish for a period of fifty-three years. He died on the
4th of April, 1859, aged 89. Also of his wife, Selina Martin,
died 2nd day of June, 1847, aged 71 years.

'' Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord, for they rest
from their labours.''

Samuel Martin, of Warsop, by his Will dated
22nd July, 1857, after reciting that "having already
by deed or gift provided in part for all my sons,"
devised all his real estates to such uses as his son,
Francis Martin, should at any time by deed or will
appoint, and in default of appointment unto the said
Francis Martin and the heirs of his body, and in
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Other sons, Samuel Martin, Marcus Martin, John
Martin, William Martin, and Edward Martin, and
their heirs, in equal shares as tenants in common.

The Will, with two codicils, was proved on
12th April, 1859.

The Eev. Samuel Martin was the eldest son of
Samuel Martin, of Warsop. He was bom at
Cromwell, Notts., on 27th November, 1796, and was
baptized there, and he was educated at Eugby School
and St. John's College, Cambridge, and took his M.A.
degree, and was ordained and became curate in
London to his Uncle Beresford, who was Eector of
(the family living) Hoby, Co. Leicester, and he was
also Eector of Alstonfield, Derbyshire, and of St.
Andrew's, Holbom, London.

However, a parson's life was not to his taste, and
he went to Tasmania, where he turned over by sheep
farming the large sum of money given to him by his
father, in a way which in these days would be
impossible, making a large fortune. He married a
Miss Exton, and died on 26th October, 1860. (Eugby
School Eegister. "Gentleman's Magazine," 1861,
Part I. Admission Eegister, St. John's College,
Cambridge). He had issue five sons and three
daughters. His son, Francis Martin,^ lives at Wrox-
ham, near Norwich, and is a bachelor (1908).

Edward Martin, the youngest son of Samuel
Martin, of Warsop, was born at Warsop 11th March,

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1810, and baptized there. He entered the army, and
was a captain in the 24th Madras Native Infantry.
He married a Miss Anne Frances Dumas, and he also
went to Tasmania sheep farming ; but not receiving
the large capital his eldest brother had been given
by his father, was not nearly so successful as his
brother. He died in Tasmania in 189^, leaving five
sons and one daughter. C f^^^J

William Martin was the fifth son of Samuel
Martin, of Warsop. He was bom at Warsop
23rd December, 1808, and baptized there. He was
educated at Eugby and entered the army, and
became a major in the 52nd Bengal Native Infantry.
He married Jane, daughter of Colonel Paton. On the
death of his mother he left the army and resided with
his father at Warsop until the death of the latter.

It was when so residing there with his family that
the Kev. James Atlay, afterwards Bishop of Hereford,
came to be the curate at Warsop, and met the
major's daughter, Frances Turner, and afterwards
married her, when she was about eighteen years of
age.

On his father's death the major lived in Leamington
until the death of his wife, who died and was buried
at Leamington, when he went to reside with his
unmarried daughter, Jane Martin, in Cleveland
Square, Hyde Park, London. His brothers could not
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there. After a few years the Masterman and Agra
Bank failed — a bank considered by all " Indians " as
safe as the London and Westminster Bank is now
considered. It then appeared that he had invested all
his family money in the former bank. His truly kind
and generous brother Francis then immediately gave
him something like J610,000, with the interest on
which, with some little more he possessed and his
pension, he lived with his daughter in Brompton
Crescent, South Kensington, till his death there.
His daughter was very devoted to her father, but she
grieved him greatly by joining the Church of Home.

The major was agood chess player, and used to play
with the champion players. He amused himself (and
others) over an interest in prophetical religious
matters, and wrote pamphlets on the subject, amongst
others '' The Parable of the Wheat and the Tares in
its Prophetical Bearing," "Thoughts on ''Post-
MiUennialism," and " The Two Promises."

By his father's Will the major was bequeathed
all the furniture* and chattels in Warsop
Eectory, and under that bequest passed the lovely
portraits by Hoppner of his mother and her two
sisters — Prances and Judith Beresford — and the
portrait of their mother, Mrs. Beresford. By his
Will he left them aU to his daughter, Jane Martin,
who exhibited the Hoppner portraits at Burlington
House in 1893 at the Winter exhibition. She
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Martin, and he exhibited the portrait of Judith
Beresford in the Franco-British Exhibition of 1908.
The major died and is buried in Brompton Cemetery.
He had issue four children : (1) William Eeid Martin,
a major-general, Indian Staff Corps, who married
Agnes Kebekah, daughter of Sir William Fitz-
Herbert, Bart., and died in 1892 without issue, and
was buried at Tissington, Derbyshire. He played in
the Eugby Eleven.

(2) Marcus Trevelyan Martin was born in 1842,
he was L.L.M., Barrister-at-law of Lincoln's Inn
(called to the Bar 27th January, 1868), educated
at Eugby and Trinity College, Cambridge, and
married in 1892, Lucy Eleanor, daughter of Henry
Lewis Itaphael, of 31, Portland Place, London, and
he died 5th June, 1908, and was buried at Highgate
Cemetery, leaving issue two daughters only (grave-
stone 37,207, square 78). He played in the Eugby
Eleven and in the Cambridge University Eleven, and
he was J.P., Co. London. His Will is dated 25th
January, 1899. He gave the aforesaid family portraits
to his wife for her life, then two of them to one of his
two daughters, and two of them to the other of his two
daughters as he had no son. It was proved with a
codicil on 8th July, 1908.

(3) Frances Turner Martin, married Dr. James
Atlay, Bishop of Hereford, and has had numerous
issue, of whom the eldest is James Beresford Atlay,

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Martin, of Warsop, was born at Warsop on 15th
February, 1802, and baptized there. He was educated
at Eugby School, and in 1820 commenced residence
at Trinity College, Cambridge, obtaining a Trinity
Scholarship, and was senior Bell Scholar the following
year. He took his degree in 1824, when he was
seventh Wrangler ; but that he was a distinguished
classical, as well as mathematical, scholar is proved
by the fact of his having in the previous year obtained
the Craven Scholarship.

He never married. In the " Life of Edward White
Benson, Archbishop of Canterbury," published in 1900,
there is an account of Francis Martin, by the Arch-
bishop's son, who states that on the Archbishop's return
to Cambridge, after his father's death, " as he entered
the Great Court, looking and feeling very desolate,
Mr. Martin, the Bursar, whom he only slightly knew,
met him and asked him to come to his rooms. From
that time dated a warm friendship between the two.
Mr. Martin, a childless man of an intensely affec-
tionate nature, became devotedly attached to my
father, and treated him for years as a favourite son.
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brothers and sisters, to the expenses of whose
education he largely contributed, and to whom he
eventually left a large proportion of his fortune.'^
(This is a mistake on the part of the writer, for what
he did for the family was done in his lifetime. He
merely gave the Archbishop by his Will, a silver
bread-basket and a picture and small pecuniary
legacy). The son goes on to say : " I can well
remember Mr. Martin, a clean-shaven, clear-skinned
old gentleman, very precisely dressed, with high
collars scraping his parchment-like cheeks, large
grey eyes, and a fierce gruff manner, which was to a
child ineffably disconcerting." . . . . " My eldest
brother was named after him." (This brother, Martin
Bens6n,died under age, in 1878, at Winchester School.)
The son writes : " It was understood that he was really
the dominant influence in the college (Trinity) for
many years. Whewell, the master, was probably
unconscious of this, and would certainly have denied
it ; but it was undoubtedly true." " Mr. Martin, by
timely advances, set all my father's affairs on a
business footing, and from that time adversity never
came near him in the guise of poverty." He was a
good Conservative, both in national and university
politics.

He examined four times for the Mathematical
Tripos, and for many years he took part in the
Fellowship and Scholarship examinations at Trinity
College.

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For thirty years Francis Martin was Bursar of
Trinity, and was Vice-Master when Professor Sedg-
wick retired in 1862 from that office. In the
"Professor's Life," by Messrs. Clark and Hughes
(1890), there is a good story told. There was a
Seniority Meeting at Trinity, and a vote was carried
whether lady candidates should be subjected to
examination under the local examinations syndicate.
In Hall that day the following conversation took
place between Mr, Martin and Sedgwick : —

M. : "I never could have believed that the
University would have sunk so low as this."

S. : " No, indeed ! Nasty forward minxes, I call
em!

Francis Martin was a great friend of Christopher
Wordsworth, Bishop of Lincoln, and was godfather
to his son, the present Bishop of Salisbury \^see the
"Life of Christopher Wordsworth," by Canon
Overton, 1888).

At the time of Whewell's election to the Master-
ship of Trinity, there were various rumours afloat.
Dr. Worsley wrote to Archdeacon Hare (" The Life
of William Whewell," by Mrs. Stair Douglas, p. 228) :
" And as to Martin, who is a most sterling person, he
laughed after his joyous and hearty fashion, over the
notion," (of his election to the post).

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In the " Letters of Queen Victoria, 1837-1861,"
Vol. I., p. 437 (John Murray, 1907), in a letter from
Sir Eobert Peel to Queen Victoria, dated 16th October,
1841, the writer, after acquainting her that the Master
of Trinity College, Cambridge, had formally signified
hiswishto retire from theduties of that important trust,
writes thus : " Sir Eobert Peel has reason to believe
that it would be advantageous that the selection of a
successor to Dr. Wordsworth should be made from
Trinity College, who are or have been Fellows of the
College. Of these the most eminent in respect to the
qualifications required in the office of Master, and to
academical distinction, are : —

Professor Whewell.

The Eev. Mr. Martin, Bursar of the College.

The Eev. Dr. Wordsworth, Head Master of
Harrow School, and son of the present
Master of Trinity.

The Professor was elected to be the Master,

Francis Martin was a member of the Oxford and
Cambridge Club in Pall Mall. He died in his rooms
at Trinity, 20th May, 1868. He was buried in the
cemetery at Cambridge. The grave is well cared for
up to 1908. The procession in the Great Court of
Trinity was as under: —

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Head Porter.

Undertaker. Assistant.

Minister : Eev. H. J, Hotham.

Fall-Beabers. Fall-Bearers.

Kev, Dr. Lightfoot. Eev, W. J. Beamont.

Eev. W G. aark. g Eev. H. A. Munro.

Eev. E. M. Cope. Q Eev. Dr. Jeremie.

Eev. the Master of St. Eev. the Master of

John's. Sidney.

Mourners :

Dr. Paget. C. Lestourgeon, Esq.

Eev. the Master of Trinity College.

Fellows and friends.

Graduates of the College.

Undergraduates of the College.

College Servants.

The first part of the Burial Service was chorally
rendered in the College Chapel, the Eev. H. J.
Hotham, Senior Dean, officiating. After the conclu-
sion of this part of the service, the procession moved
in the same order as before to the entrance gateway,
where the body was placed in the hearse, and eight
mourning coaches attended, which were occupied as
follows : —

1st Coach. — Marcus Martin, Esq., John Martin, Esq.,
Major Martin, M. l*. Martin, Esq.

2nd Coach. — Stapleton Martin, Esq., Eev. S. Banks,
Eev. J. Bacon, Lieut. F. Bacon.

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3rd Coach. — Dr. Paget, C. Lestourgeon, Esq., Dr.

Benson, Bev. H. J. Hotham.
4th Coach. — ^Four pall-bearers.
5th Coach. — ^Four pall-bearers.
6th Coach. — ^Kev. W. Airy, Eev. the Master of St.

Peter's, Professor Selwyn, Eev. the Master of

Sidney.
7th Coach. — ^Professor Challis, Eev. J. Hailstone,

Dr. Kennedy, Professor Jarrett.
8th Coach.—

The private carriages of Dr. Paget, the Master of
Sidney, and the Eev. W. B. Pike, also followed.

At the cemetery the concluding portion of the
Burial Service was read by Benson, Archbishop of
Canterbury, then the Eev. E. W. Benson, D.D., Head
Master of Wellington College, and formerly Fellow
of Trinity. Most of the shops and houses along the
route of the procession from the college to the
cemetery were partially closed.

Allusion was made to the deceased by the Eev.
W. G. Clark, Public Orator, in his sermon in the
College Chapel on Sunday morning, which he
concluded as follows : " I must not conclude without
saying a few words on the loss we have recently
sustained in the death of the Eev. Francis Martin,
Senior Fellow and late Vice-Master. It will be
mentioned with due honour in our Commemoration
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one who has devoted his life to the service of the
college as well deserves a place in our memory and
the title of ** Benefactor " as those who have left us
money or lands. He held for many years one of the
most important offices of the college, that of Bursar,
and he discharged his duties not only with admirable
zeal and sagacity, but with a high-minded liberality,
such as befitted the noble purposes for which the
college was founded and endowed. For the last few
years failing health had compelled him to withdraw
from active life, and too often kept him a prisoner in
his rooms, so that few of my younger hearers probably
knew him even by sight ; but the senior members of
our body, who were so long his friends and colleagues,
will bear me out when I say that there never lived a
man more truthful, more straightforward, more
unselfish. He showed great decision in forming his
opinions, and frankness as well as skill in maintaining
them ; but when the opposite opinion prevailed he
cheerfully acquiesced in the result, and never bore
any grudge against his opponents. He was incapable
of any artifice. He never did anything by stealth,
except works of charity, and these were often as
munificent as they were secret. He was a man of
sincere piety, happy in that no shadow of doubt ever
disturbed the serenity of his faith. He bore the
sufferings of his last illness with uncomplaining
patience, and looked forward to the hour of death
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was his life, both in word and deed, that we cannot
hesitate to class him among those of whom Christ has
said, " Blessed are the pure in heart for they shall
see God." The "Dead March" was played before
the Anthem at the evening service.

(Copied from the Cambridge Chronicle of
May 30th, 1868).

A very excellent portrait of him hangs in the
Smaller Combination Eoom of his beloved Trinity,
and the following tablet was erected in the corridor
of Trinity : —

IN PIAM MEMORIAM
VIRI rVSTI HONBSTI MBBRALIS

FBANGISGI MARTIN

HVJVS COLLBGH SOCH SENIORIS

THESAVRABH DENIQVB VICE MAGISTRI

OBHT MDCCCLXVm

ANNO ABTATIS 8VAE LXVI.

A Translation of which is :

In Pious Memory

of Francis Martin, a just, honest

and liberal man; a senior fellow

of this College, Bursar, at last

Vice-Master.

D. 1868. Aged 66.

Francis Martin made his Will dated 16th June,

1866, and thereby {inter alia) gave small legacies

and some chattels to the Benson family, and

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to his brother, Marcus Martin, the portrait of Charles
Cotton, by Lely, and the landscape over his fireplace
by Hoppner, and he gave the option to Trinity
College of purchasing for the original small sum
he had paid for it — the field he bought in the parish
of St. Giles (this offer was accepted and was valuable
property, as it had been covered with houses) he
also gave various annuities to old Warsop people and
he devised all his " freehold estate " situate at or near
Birmingham unto and to the use of Frances Turner
Atlay, her heirs and assigns. He gave pecuniary
legacies to his nephews and nieces in England, and
the rest of his real and personal estate he directed to
be sold for the benefit of the children of his brother
William equally.

The Will was proved on 9th June, 1868.

Marcus Martin, the third son of Samuel Martin,
of Warsop, was bom on 19th April, 1803, at War-
sop, and baptized there on 3rd June, 1803. His
godmother was Mrs. Gally-Knight. He was educated
at Southwell and obtained there a book prize when
11 years old, and afterwards he went to Kugby
School, where he was captain of the Eleven. He was
called to the Bar at the Middle Temple on 21st May,
1830. He was married — by the Eev. ^ , Matthews,
Rector of Greenwich, at St. George's Church, Blooms-
bury, on 24th March, 1831, to Harriett Mary, only
child of John Stapleton, of Calcutta, by Eliza Esther
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Bar, for which he read in the chambers of Mr.
Tyrrell and Mr. Duval. He kept up his cricket
when at the Bar and belonged to the Blackheath
Club, where he met a Mr. Harrison, who was a
member of the firm of Harrison, Beale and Harrison,
of Bedford Eow, who had a large business as convey-
ancing solicitors. One day very soon after his setting
up to practice Mr. Harrison walked into his
chambers with a bundle of law papers for him to
attend to ; this led to more work being sent, and
from that day the business ramified quickly. He
always traced his success at the Bar to his meeting
this solicitor in the cricket-field. His pupil room was
much sought after and for years he usually had four
pupils, amongst the most famous of them were the Kt.
Hon. Sir Ford North, P.O., formerly a Justice of the
High Court, Chancery Division; the Et. Hon. Sir
Bichard Garth, formerly Chief Justice of Bengal ; Sir
Lewis Morris, the poet ; the Et. Hon. Eobert William
Hanbury, President of the Board of Agriculture ; and
Mr. Droop, Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge.
He acted as conveyancing counsel to many of the
Eoman Catholic nobility, including the Duke of Nor-
folk, Lord Howard of Glossop, Lord Stafford and
Lord Petre, as also for the Eoyal Exchange Assur-
ance and Union Insurance Companies. He enjoyed
perfect health, never having had a doctor except for
boils, attributed to his frugal living. He eat very
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consisted of bread and cheese, which he carried to
his chambers in his pocket, and a glass of cold water.
About the year 1845 he experienced that change of
life which is by some persons called ** conversion,"
and thereafter gave all his spare time to religion.
He left the Church of England and joined the Baptist
Communion, as did afterwards in 1848 his life-long
friend the Hon. and Kev. Baptist Noel, a brother of
the Earl of Gainsborough, who was a most popular
preacher and much run after as such. This accounts
for the fact that his son Stapleton Martin was not
baptized as an infant and not until he went to Cam-
bridge, when he was baptized at St. Simon's Church,
Chelsea. However, the wife and children of Marcus
Martin never left the Church of England, though his
wife sometimes accompanied him to hear Baptist
Noel preach in his chapel in Bedford Eow.

In those days it cost something to join a despised
Dissenting sect, and some of his friends gave him the
cold shoulder. He Martin and Noel families became
very intimate for many years. Marcus Martin cared
nothing at all for politics, and a political dissenter
was an abomination to him. He lived for many
years at 40, Bedford Place^ Eussell Square, until he
moved to 9, Montague Place, close by, where he and
his wife both died. The house is now pulled down,
and the ground forms part of the British Museum
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The following stories seem worth preserving : —

When visiting one winter in his district, Marcus
Martin was expostulating on the evils of drink with
some poor man who, after listening, said, " Ah I I
know that you like your glass I " " Why, what do
you mean ? " said Marcus Martin. The man tapped
his nose and said, *' I can tell by that." The fact
was, he had a bad circulation, and in cold weather
his extremities, hands, nose, etc., turned rather a
blue-red colour. He was a teetotaller certainly
before he was 40 years of age, finding that
example only influenced people who drank. He
knew his Peerage fer better than most people.
At a dinner party at his own house there was a lull
in the conversation and he heard at the far end of the
table the name of " Lord Dundreary " mentioned.
" What is that ? " he said, " Lord Dundreary, why
there is no such name in the Peerage 1 " At the
time all London was talking of Sothem in the
character of an imaginary Lord Dundreary ; but
Marcus Martin had left * the world,' and had not
heard of the play. Before he left *the world'
however, he was very fond of the theatre, and indeed
so fond that when the comedian Charles Mathews
(the elder) died, in 1835, he attended his sale and
bought a beautiful alabaster ornament of the " Three
Graces." He also bought an *' Ottoman " which had
belonged to Edmund Kean, who died 1833.

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Marcus Martin at his own table at a dinner
party, after some loud talk over one of the
Ecclesiastical Commissioners' Acts of Parliament by
his son-in-law, quietly said, " Well, I think that
I am entitled to have an opinion for / drew the
Act my self f " He was for many years senior
conveyancing Counsel to the Commissioners. One
sunmier Marcus Martin took a house at Grasmere
and went away fix>m there for a night or two with his
sons to see Lake of Buttermere, putting up at the
then primitive Inn. When leaving, the landlady
brought in the bill. He looked it over and said with
astonishment, " My good woman, what does this
mean ? How can you ever make a living by such
charges ? " They were ridiculously small — ^then he
paid the bill and added about double to the charges
made in it. This is a good instance of his generosity !

Marcus Martin's great Rugby School friend was
Sir Hugh Williams of Bodelwyddan, Wales, 3rd
Baronet. They both read for the law, and both were
members of the Middle Temple, and dined together
there every night in the Hall in term time. They
seldom met in later life, for Sir Hugh rarely visited
London for one thing, and lived a mere country gentle-
man's life. When, however, in the year 1864, Marcus
Martin, his wife and five daughters accompanied by
their butler and ladies' maid put up in hotel near
Bodelwyddan when travelling in Wales, Sir Hugh
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into his house. He kept a harper, and after dinner
he played to the house-party. Marcus Martin for
several years after, often expressed a doubt whether
the harper expected a * tip ' or not, for he had not given
one ; but the matter seemed to bother him for a long
while afterwards. His generosity was simply un-
bounded to his family, his Chapel, and to Societies.
He was a bom " giver." He hardly spent a penny on
himself except on his dress, which always looked new,
as also did his hat and other personal attire. He
was just six feet high, and very thin and wiry.
For many years he rarely missed conducting a large
Bible class every Monday evening.

His great firiend, besides Baptist Noel, was Mr.
George Morris of the Indian Civil Service.

Marcus Martin printed for private circulation a
volume of poems, entitled " Short pieces in Rhyme,
chiefly Religious Charades, Translations into Latin/'
He was very fond of botany and Church architecture.
He read Virgil and Horace until quite the end of his
life. He died suddenly, on 17th August, 1885,
and alone, for his family were at Folkestone for the
Summer, and his son was in Scotland shooting on a
friend's moor.

Several hundred people attended the ftineral at
St. George's Church, Bloomsbury, and at the grave-
side at Kensal Green, Archdeacon Long read the
service. A funeral sermon (which was published)

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was preached in John Street Chapel, Bedford Row,
by the Rev. W. Norris, from the text, " Thou shalt
come to thy grave in a full age, like a shock of corn
Cometh in his season." Job v. 26. The following is
an extract : —

" Certain great societies found in him a munificent contri-
butor ; and this Church had in him a pillar, graceful and yet
strong, retiring and yet prominent, standing for many years yet
sharing the burdens to the last.''

He made his Will dated 29th December, 1879,
which (with two Codicils) was proved 14th Sep-
tember, 1885. A tablet was erected in that Chapel
to his memory without the &mily being consulted in
any way over it. It runs thus : —

" In Memory of Marcus Martin (Barrister-at-Law), for 36
years a member of this Church.

" During 27 years of whidi he discharged the duties of the
Office of Deacon with zeal and fidelity.

" A hallowed fragrance pervades his memory by reason of
his holy life.

'* His labours in the Lord were abundant, he will be long
remembered as the faithful and efficient conductor of a large
Bible class ; as a constant and liberal helper of the poor ; an ever
welcome visitor at the abode of sorrow and home of affliction ; a
sincere friend, a wise counsellor and a most generous supporter of
various societies that had for their object, the extension of the
Kingdom of the Lord Jesus Christ. He entered into rest
August 17, 1885. Aged 82 years. He being dead yet speaketh.
Heb. XI. 4."

His Biography is given the Memoirs o£ Convey-
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in "The Freeman " newspaper for 11th September,
1885.

John Martin the fourth son of Samuel Martin of
Warsop, he was bom at Warsop on 10th October,
1806, and baptized there. He was educated at
Rugby, and lived with his brother Marcus Martin
after the latter married, until his death, his mother
having requested the wife of Marcus Martin to allow
him to do so. He adopted the law as a profession
and attended to his professional duties with the
utmost regularity. He hardly ever went away for
a holiday, and used laughingly to say that he
could not understand why other people did. But
although he discharged faithfully and ably the
professional work which from family connection or
other cause fell in his way, his time was too exclu-
sively occupied in voluntary work for the good of
others to render a successful business career possible.
Mr. Martin never married, and the possession of
considerable private means to a certain extent
relieved him from the necessity of devoting himself
thoroughly to his profession.

He connected himself with the National schools in
Baldwin Gardens, Gray's Inn Lane. This institution
he in a great measure maintained in later years out of
his own private resources, and through his untiring
energy and perseverance, he succeeded in bringing
it to a high state of efficiency. For upwards of forty
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daily, and he held there a Sunday afternoon class of
senior scholars and others, and also a Monday evening
class of young men who had left school. During all
that period he did not miss his Sunday or Monday
classes on more than three or four occasions, never
being absent for any purposes of pleasure or recreation.

The roll of his pupils, living and dead, who,
moulded by his teaching, influence, and examplei^
regarded him ever after with almost filial aflfection
and respect, may be counted by hundreds. His " old
boys,'' as he loved to call them, are scattered all over
the world, but there is scarcely one of them who
could not tell of kindnesses and aflfectionate sympathy
renewed again and again since school-boy days.
Many of his scholars are now clergymen and lawyers
and schoolmasters and persons occupying various
positions of influence and trust. A yearly gathering
of old pupils was held for many years, and gave him
great pleasure. It was only discontinued when
illness having confined him to the so&, he became,
perforce, in some measure a recluse, though even then
he was easily accessible, and always glad to see old
friends, and as ready as ever to help with counsel or
money, or in any other way, as the occasion required.

Education and especially the education of teachers,
remained through life the work in which he took
most interest. He was founder of the Church of
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and while it lasted, its mainstay. He was also an
active member, and latterly the Chairman, of the
Committee of the Home and Colonial School
Society. But he was by no means so absorbed
in education that he could not interest himself in
other work. Almost from the commencement of the
Church Pastoral Aid Society he was one of the most
regular attendants at the morning meetings of the
Committee. For many years he was the Chairman of
the Committee of the Colonial and Continental Church
Society. He was also a staunch supporter of the
London City Mission. These and many other
religious and charitable institutions were aided by his
pecuniary contributions to the full extent of his
ability. Besides his Uberal support of these public
institutions, his private benefactions were overflowing,
and his gratuitous assistance as a lawyer to those who
were needy, was most cheerfiiUy and kindly rendered*
Besides all this, his advice and counsel were much
sought and prized by multitudes of friends, not only
in legal matters, but still more in ecclesiastical and
social difficulties, when a clear head and a sound
judgment were needed.

For many years he was a member of the Council
of the Church Association. He allowed his name to
be used as the promoter m the celebrated suit of
Martin v. Mackonochie started, it should be mentioned,
rather to settle points of Church law which were
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the law against any particular individual. It was not
until Mr. Mackonochie's practices had been decisively
condemned that he discovered that the Privy Council,
to which he had appealed and before which he had
been heard, was too Erastian a tribunal to be obeyed,
and the era of high-handed contempt of the law, as
declared by the Courts, was inaugurated. Mr. Martin
would never consent to the imprisonment of Mr.
Mackonochie, who was finally deprived for persistent
contumacy. Mr. Martin took, however, but little
part in the latter episodes of the Mackonochie litiga-
tion, and for some years before his death had withdrawn
from the Council of the Church Association.

He gave all his income to the cause of God, either
in directly furthering the spread of the Gospel, or in
promoting in some way the welfare of his fellow
creatures. The principle upon which he acted was
to spend for the above purposes all the profits of his
business as a lawyer, the capital as well as the income
of all legacies and property derived fi'om any source
except fi*om his parents, and all the income of the
property derived fi'om his parents, leaving the capital
only of such property to be disposed of among his
relations and a few personal fidends after his death.
He entertained a very strong feeling against the
practice of accumulating money, except for the due
and moderate provision of a family. The Church of
England Training College at Cheltenham, which was
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memoration on the 4th and 5th June, 1897. In the
published book on the Memorial Commemoration
which was presented to the Students past and present
attending the Re-union, we read : — "The Metropolitan
College at Highbury, founded on the same principles
as our own, had resolved to close, but its friends and
supporters nobly determined to put forth their
strength so that one College at least should be main-
tained in its integrity, and the religious principles so
dear to the promoters of both, should be preserved.
It was owing to the wisdom, zeal, and untiring efforts
of Mr. John Martin, the Hon. Secretary of the High-
bury College, that this magnificent work, generously
contemplated, was so effectually carried out, and it is
to his instrumentality and deep interest in the work,
which continued so long as his life lasted, that our

College is so deeply indebted Those who

have seen the result of such generosity in the admirable
and most suitable building, St. Mary's Hall, opposite
St. Matthew's Church, and their Students who have
enjoyed its comforts and partaken of its benefits, are
not likely to forget the name of one who, through his
persevering and unselfish devotion, carried out so
grand an enterprise, though he had to resign his own
work that he might strengthen a kindred work in the
hands of another." He died 16th May, 1885, and
was buried at Kensal Green. The first part of the
funeral service was conducted at St. George's, Blooms-
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Rector (afterwards Bishop of Melbourne), and
Archdeacon Long, in the presence of a large concourse
of friends and others who sought thus to render
honour to his memory. The mourners were his
brothers, Mr. Marcus Martin and Major William
Martin, Mrs. Long, and the Misses Martin, Mr.
Stapleton Martin, Mr. Fitzherbert Wright, Mr. Wm.
Beresford, Mr. Vivian Long, the Bishop of Hereford,
Mr. Beresford Atlay, the Rev. R. W. Dibdin, the Rev,
Canon Nisbet, the Rev. Thomas Turner, the Rev.
J. A. Bailey and others.

Amongst those present in addition to the mourners,
were Bishop Alford, Major-General E. Davidson, Lay
Secretary of the Church Pastoral Aid Society, the
Rev. Dr. L. B. White, representing the Religious
Tract Society, the Rev. D. L. McAnally, representing
the Colonial and Continental Church Society, the
Principal of the Home and Colonial School Society,
the Editor of the "Record," Mr. Osmaston, Jun.,
Mr. G. H. Sawtell, Mr. R. W. Dibdin, Mr. Charles
Dibdin, Mr. Lewis T. Dibdin (now Sir L. T. Dibdin,
Dean of the Court of Arches), Mr. Harry C. Nisbet,
Mr. John R. Bourne, Mr. Grane, and many others.

The Committee of the Home and Colonial School
Society paid the following tribute to Mr. Martin's
memory : —

" While this Report is passing through the press, the death
of Mr. John Martin, for many years Chairman of the Society's
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which his name will ever be remembered by his colleagues.
Himself a generous benefactor, and widely influential among
Christian givers, he was on two or three occasions the instrument
of most opportune aid to a cause which has had to deplore the
removal of most of its early supporters, while his wise and clear
counsels averted many a difficulty of administration in the
College. His long experience and pre-eminent success rendered
him an unquestionable authority in the supervision of the work
of training and in practical teaching ; while the soundness and
consistency of his principles commended themselves on all
occasions to his fellow-workers, and inspired unlimited confidence
among the friends of Protestant Christian education. After
nearly five years of seclusion and suffering, following fifty of
untiring labor, he has been called to his rest in his seventy-ninth
year, and he has left us the treasure of an almost unique example
and the inspiration of an honoured name.''

The following Resolution was passed by the
General Committee of the Church Pastoral Aid
Society : —

''The Committee hear of the death of John Martin, Esq.,
their old and valued friend, with sad but mingled feeling;
grieved at the loss they have sustained, and yet glad that he is
relieved from the afiliction which had for years past deprived
them of his presence at their meetings. From 1839 to 1880
(when he became a Yioe-President) Mr. Martin' sat on the
Committee Hi the Society, and was a constant attendant at the
meetings of the Sub-Committee. His profound attachment to
Evangelical truth, the sagacity and penetration of his judgment,
and the wisdom of his counsels, are held in lively remembrance
by those who served with him on the Committee. ^ The Com-
mittee are glad to know that he retained to the laat his warm
interest in the Church Pastoral Aid Society. They desire that
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mittee at the funeral, and that letters of condolence he sent to
the family expressing the Committee's sympathy with them in
the bereavement they have sustained."

The aforesaid Memoir is chiefly taken from the
Record Newspaper for 22nd May, 1885, and his life
is recorded in Boase's Modem English Biography.
A window was erected to his memory in St. Peter's
Church, Safiron Hill, where he attended for many
years. His chief friend from Rugby days was, Francis
Wright of Osmaston till the latter's death in
1873. He was about six feet high and had most
beautifiil hands, his hair was very thick and looked
like a wig, as it had no parting at all. Truth
compels the writer of this book to state that although
he spent nothing on himself personally, his liberality
was expended on persons who, and institutions which
had no claim upon him at all, and that those with
whom he had lived all his life, and made a home
for him rarely received any gifts from him, and none
of any account. Most people consider that " Charity
should begin at home." His Will is dated 22nd
September, 1884, he begins it by giving certain
legacies to certain charities (although in his lifetime
he incesssantly protested against testators not giving
in their lifetime all they desired to give to charities),
he remembered various friends and relations and left
his real estate to Stapleton Martin and the residue of
his personal estate amongst the children of his
brother Marcus Martin.

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The Will was proved in June, 1885.

Mrs. Marcus Martin we have seen was the only ^
child of John Stapleton by Eliza Esther Le Gallais, ^
whose marriage settlement is dated the 14 and 15
May, 1800, and contained inter alia a settlement of a
messuage and hereditaments in Calcutta for the
ultimate benefit of the children or child ^ of this

marriage. John Stapleton died in 180©^by a fall ^

from his horse. He held a legal appointment there, e^^:>-^^^t^
and was known as "the poor man's friend." Within io. o cJJ^-
a short time of his death, his widow married Roger ^^^^ ^^
Shine and died in 1854, being buried at KensalGh*een ^ '
( number of tombstone is 10,242^ ).* Some ;Si?^^ru'^

to 1908

trouble arose by the wish of some of the Irish
Stapleton cousins to be appointed her Guardian in
order that Miss Stapleton should live in Ireland with
them. It ended in her Uncle, Captain Thomas
Larkins, of The Honourable East India Company'^
service, being appointed her sole Guardian, and she
lived with and was brought up by him at Blackheath,
but she was educated for some time in Paris. The
story of the brave exploits of the Captain in his ship
the " Warren Hastings " c^ told in James's Naval
History, Vol. 3. p. 248, Vol. 4. p. 239-243, and also
in the book he himself published in 1807 which is in
the library of the writer of this book.

Miss Stapleton must have been very beautiful as a
girl, for she retained beauty to the last. She was
short and rather thin. She was most lively and

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vivacious, utterly unselfish, and never known to be out
of temper. She never said an unkind word against
anyone, but had a great horror of Romanists and cats.
She gave way in nearly everything to her husband's
wishes ; but sometimes asserted herself quietly, and
at the meetings of the ** Female Education in the
East " sometimes gave forth her * views/

"Gentleness" was her characteristic. She
enjoyed music, and played the piano in early days.
She was an absolutely devoted and most deeply
beloved mother. When living at Blackheath, she
always attended with the Larkins's the Military Balls
at Woolwich, and it is certain she received much
attention and admiration. Her marriage settlement
is dated 21st March, 1831, the original trustees being
John Pascal Larkins the elder, Francis Martin, John
Martin and John Pascal Larkins, the younger.

Mrs. Marcus Martin died 27th August, 1888, and
was buried in Kensal Green Cemetery, the service was
taken by Archdeacon Long.

There were issue Eight children of the marriage
(1) of Marcus Martin and his wife. Selina Martin, born
7th August, 1833, baptized at Warsop and who died
unmarried, 17th December, 1902, at 187, Gloucester
Terrace, Hyde Park, London, and was buried at
Kensal Green Cemetery, the service being taken by
the Bishop of Melbourne and Archdeacon Long,
Her godparents were Mrs. M. Leigh, Miss Susan
Larkins and her Uncle, John Martin.

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She knew Latin ; drew and painted well from
nature, understood botany and architecture, and thus
was a good companion in the summer time to her
fether over collecting wild flowers and in visiting
various old Churches. She worked hard in Parish
matters, and was very correct and accurate in keeping
accounts and entries. Her Will is dated 28th
December, 1894, and was proved on 16th January,
1903.

(2) Eliza Martin, bom May 12th, 1835, baptized at
St. Pancras Church, London, and died unmarried,
7th October, 1902, at Gloucester Terrace aforesaid,
and was buried at Kensal Green, the service being
taken by the Bishop of Melbourne and Archdeacon
Long. Her godparents were Mrs. John Larkins,
Miss Moorhouse, and her uncle Francis Martin. Her
Will is dated 29th June, 1899, and was proved on
5th December, 1902.

She was very vivacious and a good talker and
great letter writer. She was to some extent musical,
playing and singing. She worked for the blind,
having learnt to copy books which the blind could
read.

(3) Harriett Susannah Martin, bom 7th April, 1837,
baptized at St. Andrew's Church, Holbom. Her
godparents were Miss Judith Beresford, Mrs. Jane
Martin and Mr. John Larkins.

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(4) Susan Martin, bom 20th Febraary, 1839, baptized
at St. Peter's Church, Saffron Hill, London. Her
god-parents were her cousins, Miss Charlotte Wright,
Miss Mary Laura Larkins, and The Rev. Robert W.
Dibdin. She married 26th July, 1864, at St. George's
Church, Bloomsbury, The Rev. Robert Long, Fellow
of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, who became
Archdeacon of Auckland and Rector of Bishop
Wearmouth, and who died 24th November. 1907,
being buried in Bishop Wearmouth Cemetery, and
having a public funeral. They had issue Eight
children, viz. : —

(1) Edith Marion, born 10th May, 1865, and
died 28th April, 1870, being buried in
Brompton Cemetery.

(2) Edward Vivian Long, bom 21st January?

1867, educated at Charterhouse School.

(3) Harriett Evelyn, bom 7th July, 1868.

(4) Arthur Marcus, bom 12th October, 1869,
educated at Haileybury College, and died
1st March, 1902, at Raijun, Central India, he
was in the Woods and Forests Government
Department.

(5) Emily Susan, bom 3rd March, 1871.

(6) Gertrade May, bom 12th May, 1872.

(7) Hilda Mary, bom 16th May, 1874.

(8) Mabel Dorothy, born 18th August, 1875.
Archdeacon Long made his Will dated 19th July,

1901, which (with a Codicil dated 13th March,

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1903), was proved at Durham on 17th December,
1907.

(5) Mary Anne Martin, Born 12th October, 1840,
baptized at St. Peter's Church, Saffron Hill. Her
god-parents were, Mrs. Bernard, Mrs. Tonna and
The Rev. Prebendary Gilbert Beresford.

(^6) Marcus Martin, Junior, bom 25th June, 1842,
baptized at St. George's Church, Bloomsbury, he was
called to the Bar 1866, at Lincoln's Inn, and died a
bachelor 4th May, 1869, and was buried at Kensal
Green Cemetery. His god-parents were, his Uncle
John Martin, Captain A. E. Cotton, and Mrs. Fell, the
wife of The Rev. John Edwin Fell. He was an
excellent mimic and very fond of cricket and billiards,
and he could sing.

(7) Samuel Edward Martin, born February 9th, 1844,
died one year old, and was buried at Kensal Green
Cemetery, April 26th, 184^ He was said to have
been a most beautiful infent.

(8) (John) Stapleton Martin^ born March 15th^ 18 . :
he gives the following particulars of himself because
on his death and that of the survivor of his three now
(1908) living sisters, no one in this world will be able
to give any exact information about him, and his wife
and children, he expects, may like to have the following
particulars preserved for family use : —

He was educated at a school at Wimbledon, then
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to Rugby or Harrow. Then he went to a tutor at
East Cowes in the Isle o£ Wight whose name was
The Rev. Thomas Ford Fenn, and there it was he
made great friends with Coleman Battie Rashleigh,
who on his fether's death came into the Baronetcy :
then he went to Tunbridge Wells with The Rev.
W. C. Sawyer, who was afterwards made the first
Bishop of Grafton and Armadale, in Australia.

Then he went to a Tutor's, The Rev. H. A. Goodwin,
at Westhall near Halesworth, Suffolk, where he made
friends with The Rev. John Andrewes Reeve, late
Rector of Lambeth, now (1908) of St. Augustine's
College, Canterbury, Edward Frewen, of Brickwall,
Northiam, Sussex, late M.F.H., and Henry Vincent
Stanton, Canon of Ely, and then he went to Christ's
College, Cambridge

When at Cowes he played for the town club, and
when at Westhall he was Captain of the club there,
and when at Tunbridge Wells he often played for the
town and was Captain of the " Cambridge House "
eleven, and he was an original member of the
Committee of the " Blue Mantles," and when that
well-known club was founded he played a great deal
for them. He was a member later on of the
" Harrow Blues " and of the " Incogniti " Clubs,
and played for both of them for several years, and
also for the Eastbourne Club, year after year.

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John Lilly white's ** Cricketer's Companion " for 1872,
his name is to be found under " Grentlemen of England "
where he is described as " A good bat with patient
defence." In " Bat v. Ball " by Lester his average
of 35.2 in First Class Cricket is given, and in
" M.C C. Cricket Scores and Biographies," Vol. XEL.,
1871-1873, his biography is shortly given on p. 73.

At Cambridge he became Captain of his College
eleven ; then as now (1908) only those who have
come from a large public school had and have any
chance of playing in the University eleven, so it was
a lifelong joy to Stapleton Martin to have played for
the M.C.C. V, the University at Fenner's Ground and
to have made 51 not out and 17 not out on May 18th,
19th, 20th, 1870.

At Cambridge his chief friends were John Andrewes
Reeve, Henry Vincent Stanton ^ Gerald Stanley
Davies, Walter Long Boreham (both from Charter-
house) Oscar Tottie (from Harrow) and John Arthur
Williams (from Eton) of Bridehead, Dorchester, and
the Hon. John D. Fitz-Gerald, K.C., Su- Alfred
Scott Gatty, Gturter King-at-Arms, and The Rt. Hon.
Sir John Wingfield Bonser, P.C, and Canon Mason
of Canterbury (from Repton), and Canon Christopher
Wordsworth (from Winchester).

He took his " B.A." degree in 1872 (his " M. A."
he never took till after his marriage). He was called
to the Bar at the Middle Temple, 17th November,
1871.

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He practised as a conveyancer for many years at
2, New Square, Lincoln's Inn, at which address his
father had practised for over forty years.

He played a great deal of rackets and (real)
tennis at Cambridge and billiards, and he won two
years the (College Hurdle Races. At Cambridge he
rode (but never hunted) a good deal with his friend
Gerald Stanley Davies and Sir Henry Sutton (now a
Judge of High Court, King's Bench Division). They
were the only three riding men in the College.
After leaving Cambridge he always lived in his
father's house, and hunted from London with the
Hertfordshire hounds, keeping his horse or horses (as
it might be) at the Livery Stables at Harpenden,
Herts, and it was when hunting there that he met
his friend Crisp Berney Brown with whom he has
had such a pleasant friendship up to this time (1908).
On his fether's death, Stapleton Martin went into
residential Chambers in George Street, Portman
Square, where he resided for ten years till he married.
Every summer during August and September he
hunted with the Devon and Somerset Staghounds on
Exmoor from Minehead where he was well-known,
and where he made many friends. It was there he
met his wife, Helen Gertrude Busfeild who was the
second daughter of Walker Busfeild of Charlton,
Somerset, J.P., and of Mrs. Hooper, of Stanhawes
Court, Chipping Sodbury, Gloucestershire, and for
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Infantry the 68th (see Burke's Landed Gentry under
Ferrand and Busfeild), He was married to her on
8th January, 1895, at St. Paul's Church, Knights-
bridge, London.

The service was fully choral, and the church was
handsomely decorated. The before mentioned John
Andrewes Reeve officiated. The bride was given
away by her cousin, Mr. Ferrand, of St. Ives, York-
shire. The best man was the before mentioned Crisp
Bemey Brown. There were seven bridesmaids, the
bride's sister, Miss Lucy Mabel Busfeild, and Miss
Sykes, Miss Dorothy Busfeild, Miss Victoria Busfeild
(daughters of Colonel Busfeild), Miss Muriel Hippisley,
Mis« Dorothy Fitze and Miss Violet Hooper (the bride's
/^t^ister). They were charmingly attired in pale
yellow silk cr^pon, trimmed with white and silk gold
pessementerie. They also wore brown and yellow velvet
picture-hats, ornamented with brown ostrich feathers.
The bridegroom's presents were platted gold bracelets
with diamond crescent, and bouquets of yellow chry-
santhemums and autumn foliage, tied with streamers.
There was only one page. Master Cecil Hawkins, who
was picturesquely attired in a white satin costume of
the Charles T. period. The bride wore a wedding gown
of rich, white brocaded satin, trimmed with Honiton
lace and orange blossoms. Her fine lace veil covered
a tiara of real orange blossoms, fiistened with a massive
diamond star. Her other ornament was a magnificent
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carried a neat bridal bouquet of rare exotics. The re-
ception, given by her mother, at the South Kensington
Hotel was largely attended. Among those present
were Mr. R. N. Hooper, the Misses Martin (sisters
of Stapleton Martin), Colonel and Mrs. Busfeild,
Mr. and Mrs. E. Woodman, Mrs. Naish, Miss Busfeild
(aunt), Greneral and Mrs. Lloyd, The Hon. and

The Hon. Mrs. Charles Holmes a Court (the bride's
sister), Mr. and Mrs. Fiennes Barrett- Lennard, The
Right Hon. Sir J. W. Bon^«, P.C, Lady Wilde and
Miss Wilde, Colonel and Mrs. Robert Williams, M.P.,
Mr. and Mrs. Aden Beresford, Canon Stanton, Mr.
and Mrs. Harald . Tottie;, Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Home,
Archdeacon and Mrs. Long, The Hon. and The
Hon. J. D. Fitzgerald, ^ C, Captain and Mrs.

Sutton Kirkpatrick, and the Misses Hilda and Dorothy
Long, nieces of Stapleton Martin.

The hymn (chosen by Stapleton Martin) was
sung, which was as under : —

Oh blest the house whatever befall ;
Where Jesus Christ is all in all ;
Yea, if He were not dwelling there,
How poor and dark and void it were.

Oh blest that house where faith ye find,
And all within have set their mind
To trust their €k>d and serve Him still,
And do in all His holy will.

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Blest such a house, it prospers well,
In peace and joy the parents dwell ;
And in their children's lot is shown
How richly God can bless His own.

Then here will I and mine to-day,

A solemn covenant make and say,

" Though all the world forsake Thy word,

I and my house will serve the Lord," Amen.

(This hjnnn Stapleton Martin most earnestly hopes
(1908) will be sung at the respective weddings of his
children.)

For six months Stapleton Martin and his wife
lived at 22, Westboume Street, Hyde Park, then
they went to Spelsbury, near Chipping Norton,
Oxfordshire (hunting with the Heythorp hounds),
and from there to The Firs, Norton, Worcester.

Helen Beresford Martin, the eldest daughter of
Stapleton Martin, and his wife, was bom at 52,
Seymour Street, Portman Square, London, on 28th
December, 1902 (St. Innocent's Day). The doctors
present were Dr. Clement Godson of 82, Brook Street,
and Dr, Dyce Brown, of 29, Seymour Street. The
baptism was at St. George's Chapel, Albemarle Street,
which was pulled down in 1905. The service was
fully choral and about 150 people were present. The
ceremony was performed by the before-mentioned
John Andrewes Reeve. Stapleton Martin and his wife
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Kenilworth (in the diocese of Worcestershire). An
inscription on it, tells the story. Greorge Fletcher-
Fletcher Tremlow, of Pitmaston, near Worcester,
D.L., was the God&ther, and the aforesaid Lucy Mabel
Busfeild and Miss Sykes were the Godmothers. The
birth was announced in " The Times," " Morning
Post," "Standard," and "Court Journal." Dr.
Crowe, of Worcester, vaccinated Helen Beresford
Martin. The nurse at her birth was Mrs. Groves.

Marian Gertrude Martin the younger daughter of
Stapleton Martin and his wife was bom at 187,
Gloucester Terrace, Hyde Park, London, on 6th
August, 1907. The doctors present were the before-
mentioned Dr. Clement Godson and Dr. L. M. Earle,
of Gloucester Terrace aforesaid.

The baptism was at Holy Trinity Church,
Paddington. The service was not choral and very
few persons were invited as everyone nearly was out
of town. The ceremony was performed by the
before-mentioned Gerald Stanley Davies. Sir Colman
Battie Rashleigh, Bart., was the Godfather, and
Mrs. Borton, wife of Captain Borton {nie Saurin),
and Miss Maude Kelly were the Godmothers.

Sir Coleman Battie Rashleigh died 28th October,
1907, having presented his Goddaughter with a silver
cup. The birth was announced in the " Times," the
"Morning Post," the "Standard," and the "Daily
Mail.^* Dr. Mabyn Read vaccinated Marian Gertrude
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In Baily's Magazine for January, 1898, will be
found a biography and photograph of Mrs. Stapleton
Martin.

On 22nd May, 1908, Stapleton Martin and his
wife were summoned to a Court at Buckingham Palace,
both o£ course having been in former years presented,
Stapleton Martin by General Sir Luther Vaughau,
G.C.B., and his wife by Mrs Robert Williams,
wife of the before mentioned Colonel Robert Williams,
M.P. Mrs. Stapleton Martin at this Court had an
" exquisite gown of silver- spangled net over pale
eau de nil chiflTon, trimmed on the bodice with
mauve and silver embroidery, and finished off with a
spray of carnations. The brocade train was in perfect
harmony, having pale mauve and pink Wisteria trails,
emeralds and diamond ornaments and a bouquet of
carnations completed tiie costume." Mrs. Stapleton
Martin presented at this Court Mrs. Ormiston nee
Fitz-Adam, of B^ ./ey Court, near Windsor.

In 1903, Stapleton Martin published " Izaak
Walton and His Friends " (Chapman and Hall) and
for the last ten years or so he became a contributor to
'* Notes and Queries," during which time he contri-
buted letters etc., in " The Spectator," " The
Guardian," " The London Morning Post," and the
"Birmingham Morning Post" and the Worcester
newspapers, and in other newspapers, besides
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In 1901 he erected and alone manages and
maintains a Working Man's Reading Room at Norton,
which has been a great success. He has never smoked
in his life, and for forty years he has been a
teetotaller, and for the last three years has never
eaten butcher's meat and has never felt stronger or
better in health than now (1908). His religious
views have always remained the same. He is an out
and out Protestant, and though he usually calls
himself a Church of England man he would prefer
being called " not a proper Church of England man,"
as the Non-juror used to be called. He follows the
teaching of Frederick Robertson of Brighton, George
Dawson of Birmingham, and Dean Vaughan of the
Temple Church. He cares not a fig for Politics,
though generally voting on the Liberal side. His
London Clubs are (1908) the Oxford and Cambridge
Club in Pall Mall, and the " United University
Club," in Pall Mall East. Up to his marriage he also
belonged to the " Oriental Club," in Hanover Square.
He is also a life member of the M.C.C.

The number of the family grave in Kensal Green
is 5,426, square 36. The grave is well cared for up
to 1908.

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