1810–1889

Introduction

Born: Ju­ly 17, 1810, Ma­ry­le­bone, Lon­don, Mid­dle­sex, Eng­land.

Died: No­vem­ber 29, 1889, Sur­rey, Eng­land.

Buried: St. Pe­ter and St. Paul church­yard, Al­bury, Sur­rey, Eng­land.

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Biography

Martin was the hus­band of Isa­bel­la De­vis, and fa­ther of El­lin Is­a­belle, Ma­ry Fran­ces and Mar­ga­ret El­e­no­ra Tup­per.

Educated at Christ Church, Ox­ford, he was a friend of Brit­ish Prime Min­is­ter Glad­stone.

Prevented by a stam­mer from en­ter­ing the min­is­try, he made his ca­reer as a writ­er in­stead. In 1881, he lived in Penge, Sur­rey, and was list­ed as an au­thor and bar­ris­ter (not in prac­tice).

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