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736  the honour of Knighthood. He was created a K.C.B. 2 Jan. 1815; a Vice-Admiral 12 Aug. 1819; a G.C.B. 3 March, 1830; a full Admiral 22 July following; and Vice-Admiral of the United Kingdom in 1847.

In Jan. 1815, Sir Thos. Byam Martin was appointed Deputy-Comptroller of the Navy, and in the following year he succeeded Sir T. B. Thompson as Comptroller of the Navy; the duties of which post he continued to discharge for many years. From 1818 until 1831 he sat in Parliament as Member for Plymouth. He is now one of the Elder Brethren of the Trinity House; and has been a Director of Greenwich Hospital, a Commissioner of the Board of Longitude, &c. At the funerals of George IV. and William IV. the Admiral acted as an assistant supporter of the canopy over the royal body. He married Catherine, daughter of Capt. Robt. Fanshawe, R.N., Resident Commissioner of Plymouth Dockyard, sister of the present, and sister-in-law of Admirals Wm. Bedford, Sir John Chambers White, K.C.B., and Hon. Sir Robt. Stopford, G.C.B., by whom he has had issue three sons and three daughters. His two elder sons, and, are both Captains in the R.N. His youngest, Lieut.-Colonel Robt. Fanshawe Martin, Deputy-Adjutant-General of the Queen’s Forces at Bombay, died at Poonah 13 July, 1846. One of his daughters is married to her cousin. Sir Henry Martin, Bart., of Lockynge, co. Berks.

 MARTIN. 

, born 3 Dec. 1783, at Glanmire, co. Cork, is third son of the late Thos. Martin, Esq., of Springmount, near that place, who, as a Magistrate and the Commander of a corps of Yeomanry, rendered good service in the rebellion of 1798. One of his brothers, an officer in the 19th Light Dragoons, was for a long time employed in India as Aide-de-Camp to Lord Lake.

This officer entered the Navy, 15 Oct. 1799, under the auspices of General Myers, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 36, Capt. Chas. John Moore Mansfield, with whom he served until transferred, in June, 1802, to the 74, Capt. Solomon Ferris, lying at Portsmouth; assisting, during that period, at the capture of Le Premier Consul privateer, of 14 guns (pierced for 24) and 150 men, and of a Swedish frigate mounting 34 guns. Rejoining Capt. Mansfield, in 1803, on board the 74, he witnessed the surrender, on 28 May in that year, of La Franchise French frigate of 36 guns, and was present in the same ship in the battle of Trafalgar, 21 Oct. 1805. On Aug. 1806, at which period he was serving with Lord Collingwood in the 98, Mr. Martin was made Lieutenant to the  74, Capt. Lord Amelius Beauclerk, under whom he was for nearly 18 months employed in the Mediterranean. His succeeding appointments were – 18 Jan. 1808, to the 64, Capt. Henry Heathcote, in command of the launch of which ship he succeeded, in the vicinity of Manilla, in defeating five large piratical boats, carrying between them 20 small guns and about 200 men, after a desperate action of two hours, in which himself and the greater part of his crew, only 20 in number, were wounded – 20 March, 1810, to the  sloop, Capt. John Smith (a), stationed, for the protection of the trade, off Heligoland and the German rivers – 13 Dec. 1810, to the  74, Capt. Geo. Parker, employed in the blockade of Flushing – 11 Feb. 1812, to the 10, Capt. John McKerlie, lying at Chatham – 16 April following, to the  64, armée en flûte Capt. Geo. Bell, under whom, after conveying troops to Bermuda, he was nearly lost in an awful gale in the Bay of Biscay, during which his presence of mind and courage were most conspicuous, leading him aloft when no other person on board could be found to attempt it – 3 March, 1813, to the 74, Capt. John Ferris Devonshire, fitting for service on the coast of North America – 29 Jan. 1814, as First-Lieutenant, to the  74, in which ship, commanded by the same officer, he returned home in time to participate in the grand naval review held at Spithead – 29 July, 1818, in a similar capacity, to the  36, Capt. Wm. Bateman Dashwood, with whom he proceeded to the Rio de la Plata, where his nautical skill in a great measure saved the ship from wreck – 8 Jan. 1819 (on the latter vessel receiving the broad pendant of Commodore Wm. Bowles, although he had been given by the Admiralty to understand that he was not to have been superseded), to the 32, Capt. W. B. Dashwood, a leaky old vessel, whose hand-pumps were obliged to be kept going during the whole of her passage home – and, 18 Nov. 1819, to the command (six months after the  had been paid off) of the  gun-brig. While in that vessel on the Newfoundland station, Lieut. Martin was in discharge, from Oct. 1820 to April, 1821, of the important duties of Surrogate at Harbour Grace, where his impartial administration of justice in more than 300 cases that came before him for adjudication, gave so much satisfaction, that on his departure he was presented with a most flattering address signed by all the principal inhabitants. In the following summer he was ordered by Sir Chas. Hamilton, Governor of Newfoundland, to explore the Grand Esquimaux Inlet, and then to proceed to the northward in order to find out and communicate with the different stations of the Moravian missionaries on the coast of Labrador. These instructions he carried into effect in a complete and most successful manner. His conduct on arriving among the missionaries, after encountering many dangers and hardships, was such as to endear him greatly to them, and to elicit the earnest thanks of the “Church of the United Brethren” in England. His advent took place during their jubilee-year; and the occasion was the first of their having been visited by a man-of-war. He returned home in May, 1822, having been advanced to his present rank on 19 of the previous July; and has not been since able to procure employment.

Commander Martin married first, in 1816, the daughter of Robt. Henning, Esq., of Compton Bishop, co. Somerset; and (that lady dying in 1825), secondly, 19 Feb. 1829, at Bristol, Anna Maria, eldest daughter of B. O. Donnoghue, Esq. By his first wife he has issue.

 MARTIN. 

is eldest son of Admiral Sir Thos. Byam Martin, G.C.B.

This officer entered the Navy, 15 June, 1813, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 74, Capt. Rich. Pridham, in which ship, and in the 98, and  50, each bearing the flag of his father, he served at Plymouth and off the Scheldt until April, 1815. He then became in succession attached, for short periods, to the 50, Capt. Hon. Henry Duncan,  74, Capt. Richard Raggett,  74, Capt. Sir Archibald Collingwood Dickson, and  36, Capt. Wm. Paterson, all on the Channel station; and on next, in Jan. 1816, joining the 38, Capt. Murray Maxwell, he sailed in that ship with Lord Amherst for China – continuing in her until wrecked in the Straits of Gaspar, on her passage home, 18 Feb. 1817. In the following Aug. Mr. Martin was rated Midshipman of the yacht, Capt. Sir Edw. Hamilton. He was promoted (after nearly three years’ servitude in the Mediterranean in the 50, Capt. Hon. Anthony Maitland) to a Lieutenancy, we believe, in the  44, Capt. Sir Thos. John Cochrane, 15 Dec. 1820; and, on 7 April, 1821, he joined the frigate, Capt. Henry Prescott, fitting for South America; where, on 8 Feb. 1823, he was made Commander into the  sloop. He attained Post-rank 5 June, 1824; and was subsequently appointed –, to the 28, on the Mediterranean station, whence he returned in