Richard Martin, 1st Baronet (of Overbury Court)

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Sir Richard Biddulph Martin, 1st Baronet ( May 12, 1838 - August 23, 1916 ) was a British banker and politician of the Liberal Party and the Liberal Unionists .

Martin was the elder of two sons of Robert Martin (1808-1897) from the Overbury Court estate in the village of Overbury in Worcestershire and his wife Mary Ann († 1892), the daughter of John Biddulph from the Cocks, Biddulph & Co banking house . Robert Martin was a partner in Grasshopper Bank , which later traded under the name Martins Bank .

He went to Harrow School and Exeter College before joining his maternal grandfather's bank. He later was among the founders of the North Borneo Chartered Company and the Institute of Bankers .

In the national elections to the House of Commons in 1868 , he ran unsuccessfully in the constituency of East Worcestershire. Also unsuccessful in April 1880 was his candidacy in the general election, in which he ran for the constituency of inner-city London.

By contesting the result of the general election he was able to run for the by-election three months later in July 1880 and won the seat as a member of parliament for the constituency of Tewkesbury. Some of his ancestors have held this seat in the past, but Richard was the last of the Martins to represent the Tewkesbury constituency. The parliamentary district of Tewkesbury was dissolved under the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 and became part of the larger constituency of Gloucestershire.

In the national elections in 1885, however, he could no longer run for re-election in the new constituency, but instead ran in the constituency of Chelmsford in the county of Essex - albeit unsuccessfully.

When the Liberal Party fell out over the Irish self-government bill , Martin joined the breakaway Liberal Unionists and ran as a Liberal candidate for the Ashburton constituency in Devon - again unsuccessfully. It was not until the elections for the House of Commons in 1892 that he succeeded in replacing the British industrialist John Corbett, who had retired for reasons of age, to return to parliament for the constituency of Droitwich . He remained an MP for Droitwich until the elections in 1906.

On December 12, 1905, he was given the hereditary title of Baronet , of Overbury Court in the Parish of Overbury and County of Worcester. Since he died childless, the title expired on his death in 1916.

He was President of the Royal Statistical Society from 1906 to 1907 .

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  1. ↑ a b Baronetcies beginning with "M" (part 2) . In: Leigh Rayment's Baronetage pages . Retrieved April 30, 2009.
  2. ↑ Lawrence Goldman, 'Woodhull, Victoria Claflin (1838-1927)', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography , online edn, Oxford University Press, Oct 2008, accessed May 1, 2009
  3. ^ A b John Biddulph Martin [1892]: The Grasshopper in Lombard Street . Ayer Publishing, 1968, ISBN 978-0-8337-2266-9 .
  4. ^ A b F. WS Craig [1977]: British parliamentary election results 1832-1885 , 2nd. Edition, Parliamentary Research Services, Chichester 1989, ISBN 0-900178-26-4 , pp. 6, 304, 485.
  5. ^ A b F. WS Craig [1974]: British parliamentary election results 1885-1918 , 2nd. Edition, Parliamentary Research Services, Chichester 1989, ISBN 0-900178-27-2 , pp. 255, 275, 420.
  6. ^ The London Gazette : No. 27858, p. 8535 , November 28, 1905.
  7. ^ Past Presidents . In: Royal Statistical Society website . Retrieved May 1, 2009.
personal data
SURNAME Martin, Richard, 1st Baronet, of Overbury Court
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Martin, Sir Richard Biddulph, 1st Baronet
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British politician (Liberal Party, Liberal Unionists), member of the House of Commons
DATE OF BIRTH May 12, 1838
DATE OF DEATH August 23, 1916