See also
Husband:
Robert Martin (1809-1897)
Wife:
Mary Ann Biddulph (c. 1808-1892)
Children:
Marriage:
1837
Name:
Robert Martin
Sex:
Male
Father:
John Martin ( - )
Mother:
Frances Stone (c. 1770- )
Note:
MARTIN Robert of Overbury Court Worcestershire esquire died 17 March 1897. Probate London 3 May to Richard Biddulph Martin esquire. Effects £131021 12s. 4d.
Birth:
1809
London
Census:
1851 (age 41-42)
Banker, 21 Eaton Square, Westminster, Middlesex
Death fact:
1897 (age 87-88)
GRO Reference: 1897 M Quarter in TEWKESBURY Volume 06A Page 334 (aged 88)
Death:
17 Mar 1897 (age 87-88)
Overbury Court, Worcestershire
Name:
Mary Ann Biddulph
Sex:
Female
Father:
-
Mother:
-
Birth:
c. 1808
Camberwell, Surrey
Census:
1851 (age 42-43)
Wife in household
Death:
1892 (age 83-84)
Name:
Richard Biddulph Martin
Sex:
Male
Spouse:
Mary Frances Crozier (1840-1921)
Note 1:
Sir Richard Biddulph Martin, 1st Baronet (12 May 1838 – 23 August 1916) was an English banker and Liberal Party (and later Liberal Unionist) politician.
Martin was the older of two sons of Robert Martin (1808–1897) of Overbury Court near Tewkesbury in Gloucestershire and his wife, Mary Ann (d. 1892), who was the daughter of John Biddulph of the banking firm of Cocks, Biddulph & Co. Robert Martin was a partner of the Grasshopper Bank, which later became Martins Bank.
He was educated at Harrow School and at Exeter College, Oxford, before joining his maternal grandfather's bank. He later became one of the founders of the British North Borneo Company and of the Institute of Bankers.
Martin first stood for election to the House of Commons at the 1868 general election, when he was an unsuccessful candidate in the Eastern division of Worcestershire. He was unsuccessful again in next candidacy, at the 1880 general election in the City of London.
However, 3 months later he was elected as Member of Parliament for Tewkesbury at a by-election held in July 1880 after the result of the general election in April was overturned on petition. Several of his ancestors had held the seat in the past, but Richard was the last Martin to represent Tewkesbury. The Parliamentary Borough of Tewkesbury was abolished under the Reform Act 1885 and replaced with a wider county division of Gloucestershire.
At the 1885 general election, he did not stand for re-election in the new Tewkesbury division of Gloucestershire, contesting instead the Chelmsford division of Essex, but without success.
When the Liberal Party split over Irish Home Rule, he joined the breakaway Liberal Unionist Party, and stood as a Liberal Unionist in the Ashburton division of Devon, again without success. He finally returned to Parliament at the 1892 general election as MP for the Droitwich division of Worcestershire, replacing the Liberal Unionist John Corbett, who had retired. Martin remained Droitwich's MP until he stood down at the 1906 general election.
He was made a baronet on 12 December 1905, of Overbury Court, in Gloucestershire. He died childless, and the title became extinct on his death.
He was President of the Royal Statistical Society from 1906 to 1907.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_Richard_Martin,_1st_Baronet,_of_Overbury_Court
Note 2:
MARTIN Sir Richard Biddulph of 10 Hill Street Mayfair Middlesex and of Overbury Court Worcestershire baronet died 23 August 1916 at Overbury Court. Probate London 2 June to Lady Mary Frances Martin widow Robert Martin Holland banker C.B. and Archibald Denis Hay Cameron member of London Stock Exchange. Effects £335509 1s. 8d.
Birth:
12 May 1838
Death:
23 Aug 1916 (age 78)
Overbury Court, Worcestershire
Name:
Julia Martin
Sex:
Female
Spouse:
Douglas Henty (1838-1892)
Note:
HENTY Julia of 117 Eaton Square Middlesex widow died 7 March 1925. Probate London 9 July to Robert Martin Holland-Martin director. Effects £234153 1s. 8d.
Birth:
1839
St George Hanover Square, Westminster, Middlesex
Birth fact:
1839 (age 0)
GRO Reference: 1839 D Quarter in SAINT GEORGE HANOVER SQUARE Volume 01 Page 1
Census:
1851 (age 11-12)
Living with parents
Death:
7 Mar 1925 (age 85-86)
117 Eaton Square, Middlesex
Name:
John Biddulph Martin
Sex:
Male
Spouse:
Victoria Claflin Woodhull (1838-1927)
Note 1:
MARTIN John Biddulph of 68 Lombard Street London and of 17 Hyde Park Gate Middlesex esquire died 20 March 1897 at hotel "Santa Catalina" Las Palmas Grand Canary Island. Probate London 17 July to Victoria Martin widow. £171778 12s. 4d.
Note 2:
Mr. John Biddulph Martin, M.A. The Royal Statistical Society has, for the first time in its history, to deplore the death of a President during his actual tenancy of the Presidential Chair, and in Mr. John Biddulph Martin the Society loses not only one who was held in such esteem by his colleagues as to have been raised to the highest official post at their commend, but who also had during almost the whole period of his twenty-three years' Fellowship been closely and prominently identified with the administration of the Society's affairs.
Born in 1841, and educated at Harrow and Oxford, where he graduated in 1862, Mr. John Martin, who was descended from a long line of banking ancestors, entered the famous banking firm of Martin and Co., in Lombard Street, in 1864. In 1874, on the proposition of his brother, Mr. Richard Biddulph Martin, seconded by the late Dr. Farr, Mr. John Biddulph Martin was elected a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society, rising to a place in the Council in 1879, and serving the Society with much assiduity and ability thereon continually up to his election as President in June 1896; becoming in this interval, Honorary Secretary in 1880, Honorary Foreign Secretary in 1882, and Trustee in 1892, and holding in conjunction with these offices that of Vice-President in 1892 and 1896.
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Vol. 60, No. 2, June 1897.
Birth:
1841
St George Hanover Square, Westminster, Middlesex
Birth fact:
1841 (age 0)
GRO Reference: 1841 S Quarter in SAINT GEORGE HANOVER SQUARE Volume 01 Page 3
Death:
20 Mar 1897 (age 55-56)
Hotel Santa Catalina, Las Palmas, Grand Canary Island
Name:
Penelope Martin
Sex:
Female
Spouse:
Birth:
1842
St George Hanover Square, Westminster, Middlesex
Census:
1851 (age 8-9)
Living with parents
Death:
1873 (age 30-31)
MARTIN Robert of Overbury Court Worcestershire esquire died 17 March 1897. Probate London 3 May to Richard Biddulph Martin esquire. Effects £131021 12s. 4d.
Sir Richard Biddulph Martin, 1st Baronet (12 May 1838 – 23 August 1916) was an English banker and Liberal Party (and later Liberal Unionist) politician.
Martin was the older of two sons of Robert Martin (1808–1897) of Overbury Court near Tewkesbury in Gloucestershire and his wife, Mary Ann (d. 1892), who was the daughter of John Biddulph of the banking firm of Cocks, Biddulph & Co. Robert Martin was a partner of the Grasshopper Bank, which later became Martins Bank.
He was educated at Harrow School and at Exeter College, Oxford, before joining his maternal grandfather's bank. He later became one of the founders of the British North Borneo Company and of the Institute of Bankers.
Martin first stood for election to the House of Commons at the 1868 general election, when he was an unsuccessful candidate in the Eastern division of Worcestershire. He was unsuccessful again in next candidacy, at the 1880 general election in the City of London.
However, 3 months later he was elected as Member of Parliament for Tewkesbury at a by-election held in July 1880 after the result of the general election in April was overturned on petition. Several of his ancestors had held the seat in the past, but Richard was the last Martin to represent Tewkesbury. The Parliamentary Borough of Tewkesbury was abolished under the Reform Act 1885 and replaced with a wider county division of Gloucestershire.
At the 1885 general election, he did not stand for re-election in the new Tewkesbury division of Gloucestershire, contesting instead the Chelmsford division of Essex, but without success.
When the Liberal Party split over Irish Home Rule, he joined the breakaway Liberal Unionist Party, and stood as a Liberal Unionist in the Ashburton division of Devon, again without success. He finally returned to Parliament at the 1892 general election as MP for the Droitwich division of Worcestershire, replacing the Liberal Unionist John Corbett, who had retired. Martin remained Droitwich's MP until he stood down at the 1906 general election.
He was made a baronet on 12 December 1905, of Overbury Court, in Gloucestershire. He died childless, and the title became extinct on his death.
He was President of the Royal Statistical Society from 1906 to 1907.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_Richard_Martin,_1st_Baronet,_of_Overbury_Court
MARTIN Sir Richard Biddulph of 10 Hill Street Mayfair Middlesex and of Overbury Court Worcestershire baronet died 23 August 1916 at Overbury Court. Probate London 2 June to Lady Mary Frances Martin widow Robert Martin Holland banker C.B. and Archibald Denis Hay Cameron member of London Stock Exchange. Effects £335509 1s. 8d.
HENTY Julia of 117 Eaton Square Middlesex widow died 7 March 1925. Probate London 9 July to Robert Martin Holland-Martin director. Effects £234153 1s. 8d.
MARTIN John Biddulph of 68 Lombard Street London and of 17 Hyde Park Gate Middlesex esquire died 20 March 1897 at hotel "Santa Catalina" Las Palmas Grand Canary Island. Probate London 17 July to Victoria Martin widow. £171778 12s. 4d.
Mr. John Biddulph Martin, M.A. The Royal Statistical Society has, for the first time in its history, to deplore the death of a President during his actual tenancy of the Presidential Chair, and in Mr. John Biddulph Martin the Society loses not only one who was held in such esteem by his colleagues as to have been raised to the highest official post at their commend, but who also had during almost the whole period of his twenty-three years' Fellowship been closely and prominently identified with the administration of the Society's affairs.
Born in 1841, and educated at Harrow and Oxford, where he graduated in 1862, Mr. John Martin, who was descended from a long line of banking ancestors, entered the famous banking firm of Martin and Co., in Lombard Street, in 1864. In 1874, on the proposition of his brother, Mr. Richard Biddulph Martin, seconded by the late Dr. Farr, Mr. John Biddulph Martin was elected a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society, rising to a place in the Council in 1879, and serving the Society with much assiduity and ability thereon continually up to his election as President in June 1896; becoming in this interval, Honorary Secretary in 1880, Honorary Foreign Secretary in 1882, and Trustee in 1892, and holding in conjunction with these offices that of Vice-President in 1892 and 1896.
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Vol. 60, No. 2, June 1897.