Martin

1733 Rome (31 Dec.: 'Marten' visited the Arnaldi Palace with Richard Pococke; Pococke letters mss, f.3)

1744 see Brown 1744

c.1760 - 85 - Savoy

An Irish guide, who had been in service to an Archbishop in Ireland and who, by 1770 was 'well known to all our countrymen', in Savoy.1 In 1785 Richard Colt Hoare remarked that Martin 'first introduced potatoes into [Savoy] about twenty five years ago'.2

1. Miller, Letters, 1:41. 2. R.C. Hoare, Recollections 1785 - 7, 18.

1765 Turin (Mar.: Mr and Madame Martin's; Martin jnl.mss, 28, 29 Mar.)

- 1770 - 93 - Turin (by Jul. 1770); Venice (by 16 Oct. 1793)

Dr Burney met Martin, a banker, at Turin on 14 July 1770;1 on 16 October 1793 Sarah Bentham met Mr Martin, a banker, in Venice.2

1. Burney, Tour, 76. 2. Bentham jnl.mss.

1779 Florence (10 Nov.: Mrs Martin at Lord Cowper's with Lord Herbert; Pembroke Papers, 1:315)

1783 Naples (Jun.: son of the optician Benjamin Martin; Jones Memoirs, 123)

1790 Leghorn (Miss Martin subscribed to Mrs Barry's Maria, a Persian Slave)

1791 Venice (23 Oct. - 25 Nov.: 'Mr Martin con sua Moglie'; ASV is 763)