In Birmingham, several of its members have been Lord Mayor. They worshipped at the Church of the Messiah.[3] As Unitarian, they married into families of the same denomination, such as the Kenricks and the Chamberlains,[4] though Harriet eventually became an atheist in contrast to her brother, the religious philosopher James Martineau. Several of the Martineaus are buried in Key Hill Cemetery Birmingham, either in the family vault or separately.[5]
Huguenot beginnings
The Martineaus came from a Huguenot immigrant background, and were noted in the medical, intellectual and business fields.[8] In France, the family had registered their Arms: 'Azure three towers Argent'.[9] Gaston Martineau (c.1654–1726), a surgeon in Dieppe, moved to Norwich after the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685; the edict had allowed French Protestants freedom of religion and the Huguenots left France for safety.[10]
French nobility heritage
Initially Calvinistdissenters, Gaston and his wife raised their children to be bilingual in French and English.[11] Gaston's father, Elie, was the first cousin of Pierre Martineau, Sieur du Port (Lord of the Port, 1659–1699), conseiller et avocat (advisor and lawyer) to King Louis XIV.[12][13][14] Gaston's grandson, David Martineau II (1726–1768), was the third generation of master surgeons (Maître Chirurgien), and had five sons who made up the male line of Martineaus. David and his wife were buried in St Mary the Less, Norwich (l'Église Protestante Française de Norwich) where a mural tablet commemorates his "eminence in his skill as a Surgeon" and his wife, Dame Sarah Martineau, who was "distinguished for sound judgement, warm affection and fervent piety". Their eldest son, surgeon Philip Meadows Martineau, of Bracondale Estate was an active member of the French community in Norwich – he was Deacon of the city's French Congregation -[15] and lived in Paris for some time. A member of the Royal Society[16] and the Medical and Chirurgical Society of London, Martineau was spoken of in Paris as "le lithotomiste le plus éminent et le plus heureux de son époque".[17][18][19][7][20][21][22]
The eldest of the five sons of David Martineau II and Sarah Meadows (1725–1800) was Philip Meadows Martineau (1752–1829). A surgeon, Martineau was "one of the most distinguished lithotomists of his day".[28][29] Apprenticed to the surgeon William Donne, who was noted for skill in lithotomy, he studied medicine at several universities. After Edinburgh University in 1773, "in 1775 he passed through London for a turn of 12 months".[30] He then returned in 1777 to Norwich to become Donne's partner, and carried on his speciality. Henry Herbert Southey was his student.[31] He had one daughter. Martineau and friends set up the Norfolk and Norwich Trienniel Festival to raise money for the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital.[32]
The Martineau and Taylor families were "at the head of the Whig party in Norwich"[33] and by the 1780s, Philip's first cousin, poet and composer John Taylor (1750–1826) was hosting radical parties at his home in Norwich which Philip's family attended, including his mother Sarah, to whom John Taylor, her nephew, was "much attached". A number of other Norwich Whig "worthies" attended these events. By 1784, the two cousins, Philip and John, had established the Norwich City Library and the annual reunion of the Martineau and Taylor families which continued well into the 1850s.[34][35][36][37]
Martineau was a medical colleague and friend of Dr Sylas Neville. The two men and their families accompanied Martineau's cousin John Taylor to a great banquet at Holkham Hall on the night of 5 November 1788 celebrating the Glorious Revolution of 1688. Their host was Thomas Coke, 1st Earl of Leicester who encouraged John to sing the song he had written for the occasion – The Triumph of Liberty. Over 500 guests were invited to the event, almost all of whom, including invitee the Prince of Wales were "Whig elites".[38][39][40][41]
Having purchased the Bracondale Woods on the outskirts of Norwich in 1793,[42] in 1811 he acquired the adjacent property of Carrow Abbey.[43] By around 1797 he had built Bracondale Hall,[44] described in 1847 as a "handsome mansion with pleasure grounds delightfully laid out" by Humphry Repton who had also designed the gardens of Holkham Hall, owned by Martineau's friend, Thomas Coke, 1st Earl of Leicester.[21][45][46] From the ruins of Carrow Abbey, Martineau also constructed on his estate a "small gothic priory with windows of ancient stained glass".[47] By 1879, this estate, including the Manor of Carrow, had been sold following the death of Martineau's unmarried daughter Frances Anne.[26]
The second son, David Martineau (1754–1840), had four sons and six daughters and the third, Peter Finch Martineau (1755–1847), had four sons and two daughters. The fourth son, John Martineau of Stamford Hill, had 14 children, including John Martineau the engineer and Joseph Martineau (1786–1863) whose wife Caroline (née Parry) was presented to King George IV in May 1824 at St James Palace. The fifth son, Thomas, is mentioned below.[48][49][50]
Thomas grew up in Norwich, attending family friend Mrs Barbauld's school, the Palgrave Academy in Suffolk.[56][57] A "reading man" himself, in Martineau's family "there was always discussions about books and ideas". Thomas Martineau and his first cousin John Taylor were deacons of Norwich's Unitarian church, the Octagon Chapel.[58][59] Alongside John Taylor, Martineau and his two brothers, Philip Meadows and David, are recorded in 1819 as being commissioners for the "City and County of the City of Norwich".[60] Thomas Martineau and John Taylor were both benefactors of Harris Manchester College, Oxford University, when the college was in York, and proprietors of the Bow Gas Company, which obtained their Act of Parliament on 1 May 1821, but had run into questionable financial circumstances by 1823.[61][62][63][64]
Thomas married Elizabeth Rankin (8 October 1772 – 26 August 1848) in 1793. Elizabeth had her portrait painted a year before her death by a member of the Bonham Carter family.[65]
By the 1790s, Thomas had acquired the leasehold of Gurney Court in Magdalen Street, Norwich. His older children, including Robert (1798–1870) and Harriet, were born at Gurney Court, which was owned by the Gurney family. The two Nonconformist Norwich families were close and would eventually intermarry with the marriage, in 1879, of Frances Julia Martineau (1853–1931) – Peter Finch Martineau's great-granddaughter – to the Rev. Joseph John Gurney (1848–1890) of Earlham Hall, the Gurney's family seat. Joseph John Gurney later lived at Bracondale Hall, once the home of Thomas' brother, Philip Meadows Martineau.[66][67][68][69][70][excessive citations]
It was at Thomas's home – "commemoratively known as Martineau House" – that literary illustrissimo including Amelia Opie and Anna Letitia Barbauld were entertained.[71] Thomas' finances and investments remained viable until around 1825–26, when, in the Panic of 1825, the stock market and banking system collapsed.[72][73] Thomas died on 21 June 1826 and is buried at Rosary Cemetery,[74] the first non-denominational burial ground in the United Kingdom.
Thomas and Elizabeth had eight children. Thomas and Elizabeth Martineau's eldest child was a daughter, Elizabeth (1794–1850), who married Dr Thomas Greenhow, a reforming doctor in Newcastle, co-founder of the city's eye infirmary.[75][76] The Greenhows' daughter Frances married into the Lupton family of Leeds. Frances was an educationalist and worked to expand educational opportunities for girls. Honouring the Martineau lineage, Frances' eldest son was named Francis Martineau Lupton (1848–1921) whose great-grandson was Stephen Martineau Middleton (born 1945).[77][78]
Thomas and Elizabeths Martineau's eldest son was Thomas (1795–1824), a surgeon who co-founded the Norfolk and Norwich Eye Infirmary, which later became part of the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital.[79]
Another son, Robert (1798–1870), became a magistrate, town councillor and then Mayor of Birmingham in 1846. He married Jane Smith (died 1874).[80][pageneeded] He hired John Barnsley to build a mansion in Edgbaston, with a large wing for his mother, who lived there till her death in 1848, and another for his own family. Barnsley had already built most of Birmingham's grand Victorian and Edwardian public buildings.[81]
Their best known child was their sixth, Harriet (1802–1876), the political author and a pioneer sociologist. She sometimes stayed with her widowed mother and her brother Robert, including during his mayoral tenure.[82] The three of them, and other members of the family, are buried together in the Martineau vault at the Key Hill Cemetery, Birmingham.
Their seventh child, James (1805–1900), was a religious philosopher and a professor at Manchester New College. He was a guest teacher in Liverpool, where his sister, Rachel (1800–1876), ran a private girls' school which was attended by Elizabeth Gaskell's daughters.[83][84] James's daughter was the watercolourist Edith Martineau (1842–1909).
Sir Thomas Martineau and family
Sir Thomas Martineau (4 November 1828– 28 July 1893) was the son of Robert, Mayor of Birmingham (1846–1847) and Jane Martineau.[85] Five successive generations have served as Mayors of the city since the mid 19th century.[86] born on the family estate on Bristol Road, now Martineau Gardens, Birmingham. A solicitor, he married Emily Kenrick (1838–1899), whose family was also part of Liberal Birmingham politics. Emily was the sister of Florence (1847–1875), whose marriage to Joseph Chamberlain bore a son, Neville, who became prime minister.[87][pageneeded] Emily was also the cousin of William Kenrick MP.
Joseph Chamberlain was then the leader of the Liberal Unionists, and with his assistance Sir Thomas was instrumental in getting the Welsh Water Bill through Parliament and getting Birmingham made an assizes town.[88][89][90] Like his father, Sir Thomas was also Mayor of Birmingham, holding office from 1884 to 1887, the year Queen Victoria was received by him when opening Birmingham's Victoria Law Courts. He was subsequently invited in 1887 to Windsor Castle, where he was knighted by the Queen.[91] Sir Thomas thanked the Prince of Wales – "I have to thank your Royal Highness for drinking my health" – on the occasion of the opening of the Birmingham Law Courts in 1891. Lady Martineau and the Princess of Wales were also guests.[92]
Sir Thomas Martineau died on 28 July 1893 and is buried alongside his family at Key Hill Cemetery.[98] Colonel Ernest Martineau (1861–1952), son of Sir Thomas, was Lord Mayor of Birmingham between 1912 and 1914; his first cousin, Neville Chamberlain, replacing him in this role in 1915.[99][100][101]
Robert Francis (16 May 1831 – 15 December 1909), brother of Sir Thomas, was an alderman, secretary of the Birmingham and Midland Institute, chairman of the Technical School committee and trustee to Mason Science College which was attended by Philip Edgar Martineau (1859–1939), a founder of the Assistant Masters' Association and the son of Robert's second cousin, Francis Edgar Martineau (1828–1893).[102][103] Robert was a member of the council of Mason's successor institution, the University of Birmingham. Robert and his family were the third generation of Martineaus to live at Highfield Road, Kings Norton, Edgbaston.[104]
The intermarried Martineau and Lupton clan counted many aldermen and lord mayors, in both Birmingham and Leeds respectively, amongst their kin. Their Unitarian faith and Liberal (Unionist) political beliefs resulted in their combined commitment to many national concerns. For example, in the early 20th century, Sir Raymond Unwin's concept of the garden suburb greatly interested Robert Francis Martineau and his second cousin, Francis Martineau Lupton, both of whom were Aldermen.[121][122]
International issues were also of great concern to the family; Robert Francis Martineau welcomed the abolitionistWilliam Lloyd Garrison to his home when the American visited Birmingham on 7 July 1877 and two days later, Martineau's relative, Joseph Lupton, had Garrison as a guest at his Leeds house from 9–15 July.[123]
Lord Mayors of Birmingham
Members included five generations, father to son, of Mayors or Lord Mayors of Birmingham:[124]
Robert Martineau (1798–1870), Mayor of Birmingham, 1846–47
Sir Thomas Martineau (1828–1893), Mayor of Birmingham, 1884–87
Ernest Martineau (1861–1952), Lord Mayor of Birmingham, 1912–14
Sir Wilfrid Martineau (1889–1964), Lord Mayor of Birmingham, 1940–41[125]
Denis Martineau (1920–1999), Lord Mayor of Birmingham, 1986–87
There is a society devoted to the Martineau family of Norwich. "Specifically, the Society aims to highlight the principles of freedom of conscience advocated in the nineteenth century by Harriet Martineau and her brother, Dr. James Martineau."[130]
The National Portrait Gallery holds nearly 20 portraits of James and Harriet Martineau. Catherine, Princess of Wales, the gallery's patron, is a distant relative of them.[131]
↑ Armstrong, Eric; Frost, Vernon (2013) [2009]. Central Birmingham Through Time. Amberley. ISBN978-1-4456-2732-8. Retrieved 14 May 2020– via Google Books. Martineau Street has vanished to become Martineau Place, the family of that name having been among the 'movers and shakers' of an earlier Birmingham.
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↑ Hoecker-Drysdale, Susan (2003). "Harriet Martineau". In Ritzer, George (ed.). The Blackwell Companion to Major Classical Social Theorists. John Wiley & Sons. p.54. ISBN978-0-470-99988-2.
↑ Walne, E. (2018). "Secret Norwich". Amberley Publishing Ltd. Retrieved 21 November 2023. By the time of the first edition OS maps, Bracondale Hall (otherwise known as Bracondale Lodge or Bracondale Woods) is depicted among parkland, with Martineau's Wood, a memorial chapel and 'Knucklebone Hall (Summer House) ...
↑ "Repton Property Developments". Repton Homes. All rights reserved. 2024. Retrieved 2 January 2024. The original 'landscape gardener', Repton affected positive change on a landscape scale and that is a fine ambition for these times also. Humphry Repton has a long affiliation with Norfolk: he lived here as a child, attended school in Norwich and many of his commissions were in Norfolk, including Bracondale Lodge.
↑ "The gardener meets a marketing genius". Coke Estates Limited. 2024. Retrieved 2 January 2024. Similarly, after the estate had been inherited by Thomas William Coke (Coke of Norfolk) the fashions in landscapes had changed and after a period of focus elsewhere on the estate, a new designer was sought: Humphry Repton.
↑ Agnew, D. (1886). "Volume 2 – Book Third – Chapter 17 – Section IV". Protestant Exiles from France/Volume 2 – Book Third – Chapter 17 – Section IV. Agnew. Retrieved 24 September 2023. ...Their son, David Martineau, surgeon, married Elizabeth Finch, and died 29th May 1729, aged thirty-two, leaving two daughters and one son, the second David Martineau, surgeon (born 1726, died 1768); the latter, by Sarah Meadows, his wife, had five sons — Philip Meadows Martineau (born 1750), surgeon, David (born 1754), Peter Finch (born 1755), John (born 1758), and Thomas (born 1764, died 1826). The fourth of these, John Martineau of Stamford Hill, Middlesex, was the father of Joseph Martineau of Basing Park, Hants, who married, in 1823, Caroline, daughter of Dr. Parry of Bath
↑ "Meadows Taylor; 1755–1842; attorney; Diss, Norfolk". Norfolk Record Office, The Archive Centre, Martineau Lane, Norwich, Norfolk NR1 2DQ. 2023. Retrieved 4 July 2023. Son of Richard Taylor (1719–1763), a Norwich merchant, and grandson of John Taylor (1694–1761), unitarian divine and founder of the Octagon Chapel at Norwich. Acquired the Manor House in Mount Street in 1786 following the death of his uncle Philip Meadows, also an attorney. Succeeded by his son Thomas Lombe Taylor (1802–1878), though Meadows' sister Miss Mary Taylor (1795–1888) enjoyed part of the family property for life.
↑ The Report of Manchester College, York. Manchester College, York. 1817. p.12. Retrieved 23 June 2023. ...Thomas Madge , Thomas Martineau , John Taylor , Richard Bonington ,...
↑ "Births – MIDDLETON". Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer Yorkshire, England. 26 July 1945. Retrieved 1 January 2024. MIDDLETON—JuIy 23. at Adlington Hall, Cheshire, to Dorothy Martin, wife of Lt. Christopher MIDDLETON. R.A., a son (Stephen Martineau)...
↑ "Kate Middleton Family History". Select Surnames. 2024. Retrieved 1 January 2024. ...Francis (Frank) Lupton (1848–1921) m. Harriet Davis (1850–1892) in Leeds in 1880...– Olive Lupton (1881–1936)...Richard Noel Middleton m. Olive Lupton in Leeds in 1914...– Christopher Middleton (b. 1915), became Christopher Lupton, m. Dorothy Martin...
↑ The A.M.A.: The Journal of the Incorporated Association of Assistant Masters of Secondary School. University of Ilinios. 1939. p.142. Retrieved 18 November 2023. Philip Edgar Martineau , one of the founders of the Association , who collapsed and died on March 10th while staying at Weston – super – Mare . Mr. Martineau was in his early days a master at Wellesbourne House School , Birmingham , and ...
↑ The Schoolmasters' Yearbook & Educational Directory. Year Book Press. 1916. p.399. Retrieved 11 November 2023. MARTINEAU , Philip Edgar , Private Tutor . Educ .: King's Sch . , Peterborough; Univ . Coll . , Lond .; Mason Coll . , Birmingham; Lond . Univ . Inter . Arts , 1885. Exp . Chard Gr . Sch . , 1879; Wells Cathedral Sch . , 1881–1884 ...
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↑ Mathias, P. (1959). The Brewing Industry in England: 1700–1830. Cambridge University Press. pp.301, 511. New Capital and Partnerships: Barclay Perkins, Whitbread, Meux Reid...In 1812, Whitbreads amalgamated with John Martineau's brewery business...Thackrahs would send their travellers or agents round the distant markets with samplers...London brewers buying from the house included...Martineau...[Sir] Henry Meux and Barclays...
↑ Hannah, L. "Our history in East Anglia – The Gurney Family of Norwich". Barclays. Retrieved 4 March 2024. The Gurney family were a prominent Norfolk dynasty of bankers, wool merchants and brewers... A letter written in 1799 by David Barclay to his son-in-law Richard Gurney, now held in the Barclays archive, questioned the wisdom of finding a position in the [brewery] business for his grandson, Hudson Gurney. He writes that he does not want "my dear Grandson… placed so young in a situation dangerous to youth".
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↑ Martineau, Lady (Anne) (1949). End of World War II British. Sir William Martineau of Kincraig 11th, in Scotland ...William follows the Queen and princesses on a trip to South Africa in 1947 with magazine clippings from a garden party and the royal's meeting school children.
↑ "Sir William Martineau". IMS Vintage Photos. 2023. Retrieved 9 November 2023. Sir William Martineau held the office of Justice of the Peace (J.P.). He lived at Kincraig [Castle], Ross-shire, Scotland.
↑ "historylinksdornoch The history and archaeology of Dornoch and district – Kincraig House". WordPress.com. 2 November 2021. Retrieved 9 November 2023. The estate passed in 1918 to Roderick's nephew William Martineau, a scion of a sugar refining dynasty. William (later Sir William) appears to have carried out further work to Kincraig House, said to have been completed in 1923. [Also, "Martineau of Kincraig, at that time proprietor of the castle and also of a good deal of the old estate of the ...", from The County of Ross and Cromarty (1987) – Page 157, by A Mather]
↑ "Hubert Martineau – Biographical information". OlyMADMen. 2006–2023. Retrieved 19 November 2023. Strangely, despite being educated at Eton College, Martineau never played for the school cricket XI
↑ Unwin, Sir Raymond (2004) [1901]. Nothing Gained by Overcrowding. Routledge. ISBN978-1-135-01854-2. Guests included– Leeds Alderman, (Francis Martineau) Lupton and Birmingham Alderman, Robert Francis Martineau at the "Garden Suburb" Conference at Birmingham, 20 September 1901
↑ Unwin, Sir Raymond (2004) [1901]. Nothing Gained by Overcrowding. Routledge. ISBN978-1-135-01854-2. Guests included– Leeds Alderman, (Francis Martineau) Lupton and Birmingham Alderman, Robert Francis Martineau (Francis' Birmingham cousin) at the "Garden Suburb" Conference at Birmingham, 20 September 1901
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