Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1500-1714/Martin, (Sir) Henry
Martin, (Sir) Henry, of London (city), pleb. fil. New Coll., matric. 24 Nov., 1581, aged 19, scholar 1580, fellow 1582, B.C.L. 15 June, 1587, D.C.L. 5 June, 1592 (s. Anthony, of London); a student of Gray's Inn 1Z581, an advocate 1596, official to the archdeacon of Berks, M.P. Wilton 1586-7, Wootton Bassett 1604-11, St. Germans 1625, 1626, Oxford university 1628-9, St. Ives April to May, 1640, chancellor diocese of London 1616-27, knighted 21 Dec., 1616, judge of high court of admiralty 1617-41, of Lincoln's Inn 1623, dean of the Arches 1624-34, judge of the prerogative court of Canterbury 1624, until his death 26 Sept., 1641, buried at Longworth, Berks; father of Henry 1617. See Ath. iii. 17; Foster's Parliamentary Dictionary; Foster's Inns of Court Reg.; Coote's Civilians, 79; & Lansdowne MS. 985, f. 20.