Career
Born in Somerset, Martin was engaged in trade at Exeter. Later he obtained the post of secretary to a commission for adjusting Saint Domingo claims, and settled in a house adjoining Poets" Corner, Westminster. To Martin"s efforts, with others, was due the institution, in January 1805, of the Bath Society for the Investigation and Relief of Occasional Distress.
He died at Blackheath, aged 90, on 20 November 1838.
