SOCIETY FOR CONSTITUTIONALINFORMATION: John Martin of Richmond Buildings, Soho proposed Honorary Member 4.5.1792 by John Horne Tooke 2nded John Frost
Born Scotland 1754 according to an Ancestry user-submitted tree, because of James Bannantine mentioned below 1791 I guess he may have been John Martin son of John Martin & Elizabeth Bannatine bapt Melrose 12.11.1752 (John Banatine writer Edinburgh SunFire 1780) but many John Martins in Scotland / London Sessions 28.2.1783 John Martin clerk to William Johnstone attorney 4 Inner Temple Lane (may not have been him) / I have a note I lost source of that he had 20 years practice as attorney in Kings Bench but not found in Law List before 1789 / Middx Sessions 19.9.1785 John Martin 2 Lyons Inn gent (bail?) for Hannah Lowther spinster accused of assault by Elizabeth Manning / John Martin bach of St Clement Danes = Holborn 3.3.1786 Hannah Loader sp otp by lic wits Edward & Ann Loader / St Clement Danes examinations 22.7.1786 Hannah Martin age 21 said she had married John Martin about 3 months ago at Holborn, he lived in Lyons Inn and had already 2 children, James age 11 born Scotland, and John age 4 born at Mr Roxburgh's, Clare Court, St Clement Danes (Archibald Roxburgh shoemaker Clare Court will PCC 1784) / 1786 John Martin articled to Taylor Jackson attorney Lyons Inn (may not have been him) / London Sessions 8.2.1789 John Martin Lyons Inn / John Martin of Lyons Inn voted Horne Tooke 1790 / Eliza Tooke Martin dau of John & Hannah born 14.6.1790 bapt 8.7.1790 St Clement Danes / "Enquiry into the legal and judicial state of Scotland" by John Martin Esq attorney of Kings Bench and solicitor of Court of Session, Scotland, published by Joseph Johnson 1791 / Middx Sessions 10.1791 John Martin of Richmond Bldgs, Soho, solicitor for William Otto who was charged with assaulting Hannah Mountford spinster of 14 Chesterfield St, Little Marylebone St - Martin's colleague James Bannatine of Lyons Inn had gone to her address on 24.2.1791 (1 Richmond Bldgs was also Tooke's address in 1791) / John Martin son of John & Hannah born 1.11.1791 bapt 25.11.1791 St Anne Soho / "Account of the trial of Samuel George Grant at Chatham Barracks" by John Martin published by Joseph Johnson and James Ridgway 1792 / 3.5.1792 John Martin delegate of London Corresponding Society, of Division 8, 4.10.1792 / "Letter to the Earl of Lauderdale" by John Martin published by James Ridgway 1793 / 20.1.1794 General Meeting of LCS at Globe Tavern "Address to the People of Great Britain & Ireland" Martin acted as chair and according to the testimony of Evan Evans to the Privy Council 11.9.1794 Martin had told him he was the author of the resolutions (Nat Arch TS 11/958) / 12.2.1794 while acting as solicitor for Henry Hardy vs Holmes, Martin was committed directly to Kings Bench Prison, and discharged on 15.2.1794 (Nat Arch PRIS 4/14 p65 and see Martin's "Account of the proceedings" 1795) / 7.3.1794 John Pearce transferred his clerkship from his uncle John Treslove Keys (whose address as an attorney was 31 Red Lion St where Pearce lived with his mother Mary Ann Pearce nee Keys) to John Martin of St Ann Soho / 14.5.1794 Martin arrested for treason / 31.5.1794 Martin moved to Tower of London / 12.1.1795 moved to Kings Bench prison / 6.3.1795 released from charge of treason / 6.5.1795 released from prison / 8.5.1795 Martin signed preface to his "Account of the proceedings on a charge of High Treason against John Martin" published by Smith, Portsmouth St, Lincolns Inn & Burks, Griffin St, Spitalfields / 2.7.1795 LCS Genl Cttee (Nat Arch PC 1/23/38) Martin applied to LCS for £23.10s for defence and subsistence of Carter the bill sticker, Felix Vaughan offered to set it off from £60 which Martin owed him / Law List 1795 John Martin 31 Red Lion St, Holborn / John Martin 21 Bell Yd, Temple Bar, Law List 1797/ 26.1.1797 Martin paid £3 5s 10d by LCS for stopping the writs on Jones & Binns / In 1797 Martin defended Thomas Williams for publishing Paine's "Age of Reason" until Williams refused to follow his advice to defy the judges (Thale, Selections from LCS p381 n148) / 15.12.1797 letter from Henry Fellowes (who was arrested at Maidstone for distributing subversive literature then removed to Newgate) to John Martin who was assigned to his case but neglected to visit him during the few days he was in Newgate (Nat Arch PC 1/41/138) / Charles Felix Martin son of John & Hannah born 17.10.1795 bapt 9.12.1798 St Dunstan i t West / John Martin 181 Fleet St, corner of Cliffords Inn Passage, Law List 1798 / Morning Post 15.1.1798 John Martin died 13.1.1798 so suddenly "it was reported he had been poisoned", but the surgeons realised he had had a stroke, as Luke Hodgson (QV* in this dataset) surgeon of Cow Lane, West Smithfield deposed to the London coroners on 18.1.1798 "he gave very little head to the idle stories of the wife of the said Jno Martin" / John Martin buried St Dunstan i t West 21.1.1798 of Fleet St / William Banks wid otp = St Dunstan i t West 25.12.1813 Eliza Tooke Martin sp by banns wits P Palmer, Ann Palmer, Mary Prior Mowbray (this must have been Peregrine Palmer attorney & LCS member and his daughter Ann) / Charles Felix Martin = Soho 13.3.1814 Jane Keller / Charles Felix Martin = St Dunstan i t West 12.12.1821 Sarah Ashmead / Hannah Martin of Haymarket buried St Jas Piccy 19.1.1824 age 62 / will PCC of William Banks dated 29.2.1820 all to wife Eliza Tooke Banks wits Chas & Sarah Martin proved 10.4.1827 / Stephen Bond = St Jas Piccy 19.7.1828 Eliza Tooke Banks wits John Bond, Mary Hughes / will PCC of Stephen Bond dated 24.2.1834 all to wife Eliza Tooke Bond proved 22.9.1837 / will PCC of Eliza Tooke Bond widow of 59 Haymarket dated 7.1.1838 mentioned brother Charles Felix Martin, his wife Sarah, their children Eliza Tooke, William Charles, Charles, Sarah & Hannah, execs George Bather of 62 Haymarket & Philip Dean of 12 Norris St, wits Sophia Forrest, Charlotte Hardyman proved 19.1.1839 / Eliza Tooke Bond bur St Jas Piccy 7.1.1839 age 49 of Haymarket / Charles Felix Martin died 16.2.1875 in Michigan USA according to Kneeshaw family tree on Ancestry