Henry Robert Charles Martin

Henry Robert Charles Martin (1889 – 1942) was a long-serving officer of arms at the College of Arms in London.

Born at Maskeliya, Ceylon, the eldest son of Henry Thomas Martin, later of South Kensington,[1] Martin was educated at Bedford School, then at Lincoln College, Oxford. He was called to the bar from the Middle Temple in 1912. He represented England as a badminton player. During the First World War, he served as a Captain in the East Lancashire Regiment, and in the Intelligence Department from 1938-41.[2] His first heraldic appointment came on 31 May 1922 when he was made Rouge Croix Pursuivant of Arms in Ordinary to replace Archibald George Blomefield Russell.[3] He held this position until 2 August 1928 when he was promoted to the office of Richmond Herald of Arms in Ordinary to replace Gerald Wollaston.[4] Martin was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries in 1930. He held this office until his death from heart failure on 23 July 1942.[5][6]

In 1914, Martin had married Mary Gladys, daughter of the Rev. John Whitby St Quintin, M.A., rector of Hatley St George, Cambridge; they had three daughters: Diana, Pamela (who married, in 1936, John Maitland Cowper, of Barclays Bank),[7][8] and June.[9][10]

Martin's coat of arms, awarded 1926, was: Argent, 2 bars & 6 escallops in orle gules. Crest: From an Eastern crown or a horse's head sable, mane or, charged on the neck with a scallop or. Motto: Mediocria Maxima. Badge: A scallop reversed gules charged with a martlet or.[11]

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References

  1. ↑ Who was who: a companion to Who's Who, 1967, A. & C. Black, pg 768
  2. ↑ British History Online, Survey of London Monograph 16, College of Arms, Walter H Godfrey and Anthony Wagner, 1963, pp. 143-152 URL- http://www.british-history.ac.uk/survey-london/bk16/pp143-152 Date accessed- 11 January 2018
  3. ↑ "No. 32717". The London Gazette. 6 June 1922. p. 4328.
  4. ↑ "No. 33410". The London Gazette. 7 July 1928. p. 45309328.
  5. ↑ The Antiquaries' Journal, vol. 23, 1943, pg 185
  6. ↑ British History Online, Survey of London Monograph 16, College of Arms, Walter H Godfrey and Anthony Wagner, 1963, pp. 143-152 URL- http://www.british-history.ac.uk/survey-london/bk16/pp143-152 Date accessed- 11 January 2018
  7. ↑ Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, 1905, Earl Cowper pedigree
  8. ↑ Allan Family History URL-http://www.archerfamily.org.uk/family/allan.htm Date accessed- 11 January 2018
  9. ↑ Who was who: a companion to Who's Who, 1967, A. & C. Black, pg 768
  10. ↑ Armorial Families: a directory of gentlemen of coat-armour, vol. 2, A. C. Fox-Davies, Hurst and Blackett, Ltd, 1929 (seventh edition), pg 1321
  11. ↑ British History Online, Survey of London Monograph 16, College of Arms, Walter H Godfrey and Anthony Wagner, 1963, pp. 143-152 URL- http://www.british-history.ac.uk/survey-london/bk16/pp143-152 Date accessed- 11 January 2018



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