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Martine the troops and joint civil-commissioner, rendered valuable service in restoring order in Cuttack (ib. viii. 142-4). In April 1820 he was appointed to the command of the 1st division of the field army (headquarters, Cawnpore) and the general command of the field army, an appointment which ceased in July 1882. Martindell, who was married, died at Buxar, 2 Jan. 1831.

 MARTINE, [See also, and .]  MARTINE, GEORGE, the elder (1635–1712), of Clermont, historian of St. Andrews, born 5 Aug. 1635, was eldest son of James Martine (1615–1684), minister successively of Cults (1639), Auchtermuchty (1641), and Ballingry (1669), all in Fifeshire. His mother—his father's first wife—was Janet Robinson, who died 13 Sept. 1644 (, Fasti, pt. iv. 52). His grandfather was Dr. George Martine, principal of St. Salvator's College, St. Andrews. George became commissary clerk of St. Andrews in August 1666, and held that office till August 1690, when he was deprived ‘for not taking the assurance to King William and Queen Mary’. He was ‘secretary and companion’ to Archbishop Sharp, for whom he kept a memorandum-book of household and travelling expenses, selections from which are printed by the Maitland Club (Miscellany, ii. 497). In June 1668 he married Catherine, eldest daughter of James Winchester of Kinglassie, Fifeshire, by whom he had several children, one of whom, George, is separately noticed; succeeded his father in ‘seven aikirs at St. Andrews which belonged to the Priorie there’ in 1696, and died 26 Aug. 1712. His claim to remembrance rests on the ‘Reliquiæ divi Andreæ, or the State of the Venerable See of St. Andrews’ (St. Andrews, 1797). This work, written in 1683, but not published till 1797, was printed from a manuscript copy in the possession of a descendant (there were at least three copies in existence), and contains some valuable information which has been of use to succeeding historians of St. Andrews. He is referred to as having ‘done several other things in our Scots antiquitys’ (, Diary, as below), but nothing further was published from his pen.

 MARTINE, GEORGE, the younger (1702–1741), physician, born in Scotland in 1702, was the son of George Martine the elder [q. v.] He was educated at St. Andrews, where, on the occasion of the Jacobite rebellion in 1715, he headed a riot of some students of the college, who rang the college bells on the day that the Pretender was proclaimed. He later studied medicine, first at Edinburgh (1720), and afterwards at Leyden (1721;, Index, p. 65), graduating M.D. there in 1725. He then returned to Scotland and settled in practice at St. Andrews. In October 1740 he accompanied Charles, eighth baron Cathcart, as physician to the forces on the American expedition. After the death of that nobleman (at Dominica, 20 Dec. 1740) he was attached as first physician to the expedition against Carthagena under Admiral Vernon, and while at that place contracted a bilious fever, of which he died in 1741 (Gent. Mag. 1741, p. 108).

Martine wrote: 1. ‘De Similibus Animalibus et de Animalibus Calore libri duo,’ 8vo, London, 1740. 2. ‘Essays Medical and Philosophical,’ 8vo, London, 1740, a collection of six essays, of which two, ‘Essays and Observations on the Construction and Graduation of Thermometers,’ and ‘An Essay towards a Natural and Experimental History of the Various Degrees of Heat in Bodies,’ were reissued together as a second edition, 12mo, Edinburgh, in 1772, and again in 1792. 3. ‘In B. Eustachii Tabulas Anatomicas Commentarii,’ published by Dr. Monro, 8vo, Edinburgh, 1755. He also contributed papers on medical subjects to the ‘Edinburgh Medical Essays’ and the ‘Philosophical Transactions.’ According to a manuscript note on the title-page of the copy in the British Museum, the ‘Examination of the Newtonian Argument for the Emptiness of Space,’ 8vo, London, 1740, was also by him.

[Encyclop. Brit. 8th ed. vol. i., Dissertation 5, by Sir J. Leslie, p. 758 (note); Watt's Bibl. Brit.; Brit. Mus. Cat.; information kindly supplied by J. Maitland Anderson, esq., of St. Andrews.] 