John Martin (cricketer, born 1867)
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Full name | John Newton Martin | ||||||||||||||
Born | St Austell, Cornwall, England | 3 July 1867||||||||||||||
Died | 31 August 1942 Torquay, Devon, England | (aged 75)||||||||||||||
Batting | Unknown | ||||||||||||||
Bowling | Unknown | ||||||||||||||
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1891 | Marylebone Cricket Club | ||||||||||||||
1901–1903 | Devon | ||||||||||||||
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Source: Cricinfo, 7 February 2011 |
John Newton Martin MBE (3 July 1867 – 31 August 1942) was an English first-class cricketer.
The son of W. L. Martin, he was born in July 1867 at St Austell, Cornwall.[1] Martin had played second-class county cricket for teams representative of Devon since 1888.[2] In 1891, he made a single appearance in first-class cricket for the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) against Somerset at Taunton.[3] Batting twice in the match, he was dismissed for a single run in the MCC first innings by Ted Tyler, while following-on in their second innings, he remained unbeaten on 29.[4] Ten years later, he captained Devon County Cricket Club in their inaugural Minor Counties Championship match against Glamorgan; in doing so, he became Devon's first captain in minor counties cricket. He played minor counties cricket for Devon until 1903, making twelve appearances.[5]
Martin's profession was recorded as being a surgeon.[1] He served in the First World War in the Royal Army Medical Corps, serving with the rank of lieutenant in May 1915.[6] He was made a temporary captain in May 1916.[6] Following the war, he was made an MBE in the 1919 New Year Honours,[7] having relinquished his commission in November 1918, at which point he retained the rank of captain.[8] Martin died in Torquay, Devon on 31 August 1942.
References
- ^ a b Western will bequests. Western Morning News. 29 December 1942. p. 4
- ^ "Teams John Martin played for". CricketArchive. Retrieved 14 February 2023.
- ^ "First-Class Matches played by John Martin". CricketArchive. Retrieved 14 February 2023.
- ^ "Somerset v Marylebone Cricket Club, 1891". CricketArchive. Retrieved 14 February 2023.
- ^ "Minor Counties Championship Matches played by John Martin". CricketArchive. Retrieved 14 February 2023.
- ^ a b "No. 29193". The London Gazette. 15 June 1915. p. 5755.
- ^ "No. 29618". The London Gazette. 9 June 1916. p. 5739.
- ^ "No. 31667". The London Gazette (Supplement). 28 November 1919. p. 14801.