Capt. Martin married Isabella Harriett, daughter of Vice-Admiral Sir Thos. Briggs, G.C.M.G., by whom he has issue. Agents – Messrs. Chard.
MARTIN, C.B. (Captain, 1827. f-p., 16; h-p., 15.)
Henry Byam Martin is second son of Admiral Sir Thos. Byam Martin, G.C.B.
This officer entered the Royal Naval College, 8 Oct. 1816; and embarked, in Oct. 1818, as Midshipman, on board the Liffey 50, Capt. Hon. Henry Duncan, with whom he was employed in the Channel and on particular service, until transferred, in April, 1820, to the Rochfort 80; from which ship, bearing the flag of Sir Graham Moore in the Mediterranean, he was lent for several months in 1821-2 to the Seringapatam 46, Capt. Sam. Warren, Chanticleer sloop, Capt. Henry Eden, and Euryalus 42, Capt. Augustus Wm. Jas. Clifford. In Feb. 1823, he joined the Ramillies 74, Capt. Edw. Brace, lying at Portsmouth; and on 20 of the ensuing month he was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant; his appointments in which capacity, it appears, were, 1 July, 1823, and 26 Dec. 1824, to the Sybille frigate, Capt. John Brooke Pechell, and Revenge 76, flag-ship of Sir Harry Burrard Neale, on the Jamaica and Mediterranean stations. He attained the rank of Commander 8 April, 1825; and, after he had had command for about 12 mouths of the Parthian 10, in the Mediterranean, was advanced, 28 April, 1827, to Post-rank. From the latter date Capt. Martin did not again go afloat until appointed, 21 Nov. 1836, to the Carysfort 26, in which vessel he was for nearly five years again employed in the Mediterranean, where his services on the coast of Syria, including the attacks upon Tortosa and St. Jean d’Acre, procured his enrolment among the Companions of the Bath, 18 Dec. 1840. On the former occasion he received the grateful acknowledgments of Capt. Houston Stewart, of the Benbow, the senior officer present, for the support and assistance he afforded him, as well as for the astonishing precision of his fire in covering the boats and men employed on shore.[1] He has been in command, since 15 Nov. 1845, of the Grampus 50, in the Pacific. Agents – Messrs. Halford and Co.
MARTIN. (Lieut., 1814. f-p., 8; h-p., 33.)
Joseph Winthrop Martin entered the Navy, 28 Nov. 1806, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Sybille frigate, Capt. Robt. Winthrop, and after cruizing among the Western Islands, six months in the capacity of Midshipman, removed, in July, 1807, to the Téméraire 98, Capts. Sir Chas. Hamilton, Edw. Sneyd Clay, Edwin Henry Chamberlayne, Joseph Spear, and Sam. Hood Linzee. In that ship, which for some time bore the flags of Rear-Admirals Manley Dixon and Fras. Pickmore, he was for four years and eight months employed in the Channel and Baltic, off Cadiz, in the Mediterranean, and at Plymouth. He then followed Capt. Linzee into the Union 98, but had not been long in her before he was transferred to the Narcissus 32, Capt. John Rich. Lumley; with whom, it appears, he served in the West Indies and North America until May, 1813. He obtained a commission 27 May, 1814; and was lastly, from Oct. in the same year until Aug. 1815, employed in the Tamar 24, Capt. Chas. Sotheby, and Valiant 74, flag-ship of Rear-Admiral Manley Dixon, on the North and South American stations. Agents – Messrs. Stilwell.
MARTIN. (Commander, 1825.)
Nathaniel Martin died in 1847.
This officer entered the Navy, 17 Feb. 1799, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Diamond 38, Capt. Sir Rich. John Strachan; under whom, on being removed to the Captain 74, he assisted at the capture, 19 June, 1799, of Rear-Admiral Perreé’s squadron of three frigates and two brigs, and attended, as Midshipman, the expeditions of 1800 to Quiberon and Ferrol. In May, 1802, at which period the Captain, in command of Capt. Chas. Boyles, was at Jamaica, he took a passage home in the Vengeance 74, Capt. Geo. Duff; rejoining Sir R. J. Strachan, on his arrival, in the Donegal 80. Previously to leaving that ship, Mr. Martin was for some time employed in blockading the port of Cadiz, and contributed to the capture, 25 Nov. 1804, of the Spanish frigate Amfitrite of 44 guns. When subsequently with Sir Richard in the Caesar 80, we find him enacting a part in the action off Ferrol 4 Nov. 1805. On 1 July, 1806, he was nominated Acting-Lieutenant of the Triumph 74, Capt. Sir Thos. Masterman Hardy, and again ordered to the West Indies; after cruizing for three or four months on which station, he went back to the Caesar in the capacity last-mentioned, and continued in her (his promotion to the rank of Lieutenant being confirmed 19 March, 1807) under the flags of Rear-Admirals Sir R. J. Strachan, Hon. Robt. Stopford, and Wm. Albany Otway, under the command of Capts. Chas. Richardson and Wm. Granger, until May, 1811. He was in consequence present, during the year 1809, at the destruction of three French frigates near the batteries of Sable d’Olonne, in Lord Cochrane’s attack upon the French shipping in Basque Roads, and in the expedition to the Walcheren. His last appointments were – 3 Oct. 1811, to the Lyra 10, Capt. Robt. Bloye, under whom he saw much active service on the north coast of Spain – 12 Aug. 1812 and 2 Feb. 1813, to the Venerable and Stirling Castle 74’ s, in the latter of which ships (the Venerable had been employed as the Lyra) he escorted Earl Moira to India – 7 Nov. 1814, to the Martin sloop, Capt. Hon. Jas. Arbuthnot, stationed, until Oct. 1815, on the coast of Ireland – 18 Aug. 1818, to the command of the Grecian cutter, in the Channel – and, 26 Sept. 1822, to the Ordinary at Portsmouth. The rank of Commander was conferred on him 27 July, 1825.
He had been left a widower in March, 1820. Agents – Holmes and Folkard.
MARTIN. (Captain, 1826. f-p., 17; h-p., 31.)
Thomas Martin, born 11 Dec. 1787, is only surviving son of the late John Nickleson Martin, Esq., of WoUaton, co. Nottingham, a Captain in the Army, by Elizabeth, daughter and heiress of John Hutchinson, Esq., of Skirsgill, near Penrith, and of Crossfield House, near Kirkoswald, co. Cumberland. His grandfather, George Martin, Esq., was Surgeon of St. Thomas’s Hospital, London; and his maternal uncle, John Hutchinson, who died on board the Edgar 74, off Madras Roads, in 1783, was a Lieutenant in the Royal Marines. Capt. Martin is a descendant of Harold de Vaux, Lord de Vaux, who at a very early period crossed over from Normandy and settled in England.
This officer entered the Navy, in March, 1799, as Midshipman, on board the Superb 74, Capt. John Sutton, whom, after an intermediate servitude in the Channel and Mediterranean, he followed, in March, 1801, into the Ville de Paris 110, flag-ship of Hon. Wm. Cornwallis. In Dec. 1801, he removed to the Immortalité 36, commanded in the Channel by Capts. Hon. Henry Hotham and Edw. W. C. R. Owen; and in the summer of 1805 (having been latterly employed, still on the Home station, in the Mars 74, Capt. John Sutton, and, as Master’s Mate, in the Révolutionnaire 44, Capt. Hon. Henry Hotham) he was successively nominated Acting-Lieutenant of the Hibernia 110, Capt. Wm. Bedford, and Audacious 74, Capts. John Lawford and Jas. Bissett. He was confirmed a Lieutenant 22 Jan. 1806, and was subsequently appointed Senior – 27 March, 1806, of the Penelope 36, Capts. Wm. Robt. Broughton and John Dick, stationed for some time on the coast of North America, as also in the West Indies, where he served on shore with a party of seamen at the capture of Fort Trinité, prior to the surrender of Martinique in Feb. 1809 – 3 Dec. 1810, of the Wolverene brig, Capt. Chas. Julius Kerr, attached to the force in the Channel – and, in
- ↑ Vide Gaz. 1840, p. 2607.
