British Liberal politician Thomas Martineau, began his career as a lawyer, articling with Arthur Ryland, then joining him as a partner in the firm Ryland and Martineau. He became an alderman of Birmingham in 1883 and mayor from 1884 to 1887, the second of what were to be five generations of his family as Birmingham mayors. He succeeded in his efforts to have Birmingham become an assize town. He was also instrumental in the passage of the Welsh Water Bill. Among his other duties was that of president of the Birmingham Municipal School of Art. A Unitarian himself, he came from a notable of Birmingham family descended from French Huguenot exiles who settled in Norwich in the seventeenth century. He was a friend of Queen Victoria who knighted him in 1887. His nephew, Neville Chamberlain, became prime minister.
Gloriana Jeanne Martineau was born on May 29, 1898, in Alfred, Prescott, Ontario.
She worked with the French Missions in Ontario and wrote many essays on the topic of French Canadians and the church. In 1947, she earned her M.A. in English from McGill University, where she completed a thesis titled "La survivance française dans les comtés de Prescott et Russell." McGill University offers the Glorianna Martineau Fellowship, established in 1988 by the estate of the late Glorianna Martineau.
She died in 1986 and is buried in Caledon, Peel Regional Municipality, Ontario.
William Mulford Martin was born on June 29, 1813, in Rahway, Union County, New Jersey.
He was a clergyman and educator. He attended the College of New Jersey, now Princeton (1833-1836), and graduated from the University of New York (B.A., 1837, M.A., 1840). He also studied at the Union Theological Seminary (1839-1841). He was the founder and first principal of the New York Classical and Mathematical College School at Brooklyn (1838-1848). He also served as principal of the Athenian Academy at Rahway, N.J. (1848-1852). He was ordained by the presbytery of Brooklyn in 1852 and became pastor of the First Presbyterian Church at Woodbridge, N.J. (1852-1863). He served during the Civil War as a chaplain under the auspices of the Christian Commission. While being a missionary of the Home Missionary Society, N.Y. (1864-1867), he built the churches at Columbia, California, Virginia, and Nevada. He was also a secretary of the Brooklyn Young Men's Christian Association (1868-1876). He was a professor of Christian work at the Brooklyn Lay College (1876-1878) and was connected with the Brooklyn Society for the Benefit of the Poor.
In 1836, he married Ann Elizabeth Parmenter (1819–1885). He died on September 4, 1898, in San Francisco, California.
Simeon Jameson Martin was born April 18, 1904, Waterloo, Quebec. He was educated at Westmount High School and then at McGill University's Faculty of Arts, 1921-1922. He later graduated from the Faculty of Medicine at McGill University in 1928. He did postgraduate studies in surgery in Edinburgh and worked as an assistant surgeon at the Montreal General Hospital. He served as the officer in charge of the surgical division of the No. 1. Canadian General Hospital during World War I. He returned to Canada in 1943 and was appointed director of the Tumor Clinic at the Montreal General Hospital on September 1, 1943. He served as a demonstrator in pathology, anatomy, and surgery at McGill University.
Paul Martin was Prime Minister of Canada from 2003 to 2006.
