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Administrative / biographical background
Martin was born in 1803, the second son of Admiral of the Fleet Sir Thomas Byam Martin, comptroller of the navy. Educated at the Royal Naval Academy in 1816, he first went to sea in October 1818. By 1840 he was captain of HMS CARYFORT off the coast of Syria during the Egyptian–Ottoman War. Martin took part in actions off Tartus, and the capture of Acre on 3 November 1840. From 1846 to 1847, in command of HMS GRAMPUS he was sent to the Society Islands in the South Pacific to report on the Franco-Tahitian War and investigate the sovereignty claim of Queen Pōmare IV over the Leeward Islands. Martin was promoted to Rear-Admiral in 1854. His uncle Sir Henry William Martin of Lockynge, 2nd bart became heir to estates in Antigua following the death of his elder brother Samuel Henry Martin in 1782, these estates having been passed down from his grandfather Samuel Martin