Martin Hotine

{{Short description|British Army officer}}

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| name = Martin Hotine

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| birth_place = Wandsworth, London{{cite journal|last=Humphries|first=G J|date=March 1969|title=Martin Hotine obituary|journal=The Geographical Journal|publisher=Royal Geographical Society|volume=135|issue=1|pages=156–157|jstor=1795667}}

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| death_place = Surrey, England

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| resting_place = Municipal Cemetery, Weybridge, Surrey, England

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| nationality = British

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| known_for = Founder and first Director General of the Directorate of Overseas Surveys

| education = Southend Technical School (now SHSB)
Magdalene College, Cambridge

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| spouse = Kate Amelia Hotine (1895–1987)

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Brigadier Martin Hotine CMG CBE (17 June 1898 – 12 November 1968){{cite web|url=http://www.gravestonephotos.com/public/gravedetails.php?available=yes&fullname=Martin%20Hotine&grave=27574|title=Martin Hotine grave monument details|publisher=Gravestone photographic resource|access-date=24 January 2010}} was the head of the Trigonometrical and Levelling Division of the Ordnance Survey responsible for the 26-year-long retriangulation of Great Britain{{cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/731568/Britain--Master-of-all-he-surveys.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080627114223/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/731568/Britain--Master-of-all-he-surveys.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=27 June 2008|title=Britain: Master of all he surveys|last=Crane|first=Nicholas|date=30 October 2004|work=The Daily Telegraph|access-date=24 January 2010|location=London, England}} (1936–1962) and was the first Director General of the Directorate of Overseas Surveys (1946–1955).{{cite book|last=Macdonald|first=Alastair|title=Mapping The World|publisher=HMSO|location=Norwich, England|year=1996|edition=1st|pages=ii|isbn=0-11-701590-3}}

He served on the North-West Frontier during the First World War and later in the Persian and Mesopotamian campaigns. He has been described as "decisive, ingenious and tough".