Family of John Biddulph Martin and Victoria Claflin Woodhull

Husband:	John Biddulph Martin (1841-1897)
Wife:	Victoria Claflin Woodhull (1838-1927)
Marriage	1883	Kensington, Middlesex

Husband: John Biddulph Martin

Name:	John Biddulph Martin
Sex:	Male
Father:	Robert Martin (1809-1897)
Mother:	Mary Ann Biddulph (c. 1808-1892)
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

Wife: Victoria Claflin Woodhull

Name:	Victoria Claflin Woodhull
Sex:	Female
Father:	-
Mother:	-
Birth	23 Sep 1838	Homer, Ohio, USA
Death	9 Jun 1927 (age 88)	Bredens Norton, Gloucestershire

Note on Husband: John Biddulph Martin (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 on Husband: John Biddulph Martin (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.

Note on Wife: Victoria Claflin Woodhull

Victoria Woodhull (1838-1927) was the first woman candidate for US President. According to her opponents, the parents of suffragette and general gadfly Virginia Woodhull ran a traveling medicine carnival, and Victoria and her sister, Tennessee or "Tennie", worked in the show as a clairvoyants. According to Woodhull herself, she had a relatively normal upbringing in Ohio, where her father worked at a mill and, as a sideline, her parents sold a vaguely medicinal elixir. After marrying and divorcing while young, Woodhull came to New York City with her sister, a mistress of millionaire Cornelius Vanderbilt, who fronted funds for the sisters to open a brokerage on Wall Street. It was the first brokerage to be run by women, opened in 14 May 1870, and it was an immediate success, as rich widows and the few other women of means flocked to the offices of Woodhull, Claflin, & Co.

With Woodhull's second husband, the sisters began publishing Woodhull and Claflin's Weekly in the same year. A collection of muckraking and rants, the newspaper argued for moral and legal equality of the genders, women's clothing reform, workers' rights, legalized prostitution, birth control, vegetarianism, the greenback cause (printing more currency, without gold backing), and "pantarchy", which would later be described as free love.

In 1872, she became the first woman to run for President, running on the Equal Rights Party ticket almost 50 years before American women had the right to vote. Frederick Douglass was the Party's choice to be her running mate, but he declined the nomination. After Cornelius's death in 1877, Woodhull and her sister moved to England, where they lived the rest of their lives. Woodhull continued writing and working for women's rights, later married a wealthy banker, and published the pro-eugenics magazine Humanitarian. Her second husband, Colonel James Blood, fought for the Union in the American Civil War, and was the first Mayor of Lawrence, Kansas. Her third husband, banker John Biddulph Martin, was President of the Royal Statistical Society at the time of his death in 1897. Her cousin, Caleb S. Woodhull (1792-1866), was Mayor of New York City from 1849-51. Her son, Byron Woodhull, was mentally retarded from a head injury received as a toddler when he was dropped by Woodhull's alcoholic first husband. Her sister, Tennessee Claflin, married Francis Cook, a wealthy London businessman who was later made baronet, making her Lady Cook.