Henry Byam Martin
{{short description|British painter}}
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Sir Henry Byam Martin KCB (25 June 1803 – 9 February 1865) was a senior Royal Navy officer, and a watercolour artist.
Naval career
Martin was born in 1803, the second son of Admiral of the Fleet Sir Thomas Byam Martin, comptroller of the navy (1815–1831). Educated at the Royal Naval Academy, Martin first went to sea in October 1818. By 1840 he was captain of {{HMS|Carysfort|1836|6}} 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. His actions earned him an appointment as a Commander of the Order of the Bath.
From 1846 to 1847, in command of {{HMS|Grampus|1845|6}}, Martin 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.{{cite book |last= Dodd |first= Edward |title=The Rape of Tahiti |publisher= Dodd, Mead & Company |year=1983 |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=Uhx1AAAAMAAJ |pages=120–130|isbn= 9780396081142 }}{{cite book|last=Martin|first=Henry Byam|author-link=Henry Byam Martin|title=The Polynesian Journal of Captain Henry Byam Martin, R. N.|url=https://siopenresearch-repository.anu.edu.au/bitstream/1885/114833/2/b12536696.pdf|year=1981|publisher=Australian National University Press|location=Canberra|hdl=1885/114833|isbn=978-0-7081-1609-8|oclc=8329030|pages=7–11}}{{Dead link|date=July 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
Martin was promoted to Rear-Admiral in 1854 and was appointed as a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath for his work during Crimean War in 1855.
Artist
File:Temple of Jupiter Olympus, Athens, July 11, 1835, by Henry Byam Martin.jpg
During his travels with the Navy Martin sketched and painted what he had seen.
Family
His elder brother William Martin also became a senior naval commander.
References
Further reading
- {{cite wikisource |first=William Richard |last=O'Byrne |chapter=Martin, Henry Byam |title=A Naval Biographical Dictionary |year=1849 |publisher=John Murray}}
- {{cite book |title=Friendly spies on the Northern tour, 1815-1837 : sketches of Henry Byam Martin |first1=Henry Byam |last1=Martin |first2=James |last2=Burant |isbn=9780662512769 |oclc=428430527 |location=Ottawa |publisher=Public Archives |date=1981}}
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Category:English watercolourists
Category:Knights Commander of the Order of the Bath
Category:Artists from Plymouth, Devon
Category:British military personnel of the Egyptian–Ottoman War (1839–1841)