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\"Colonial Treasurer of Hong Kong\" Robert Montgomery Martin Cut Signature:
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Robert Montgomery Martin (c.

1801 – 6 September 1868), commonly referred to as "Montgomery

Martin", was an Anglo-Irish author and civil servant. He served as Colonial Treasurer of Hong

Kong from 1844 to 1845. He was a founding member of the Statistical Society of

London (1834), the Colonial Society (1837), and the East India

Association (1867).

Robert

Martin was born in Dublin, Ireland, into a Protestant family,

the son of John Martin and Mary Hawkins; and trained as a doctor.

About

1820 he went out to Ceylon, under the

patronage of Sir Hardinge Giffard, a

friend of his father. Travelling onwards to the Cape of Good Hope, where he arrived in June 1823; he joined

the expedition Fitzwilliam Owen,

bound for Delagoa Bay. Martin was

temporarily appointed assistant surgeon, serving also as botanist and

naturalist on the south-east coast of Africa, Madagascar, and Indian Ocean islands.

On

10 November 1824 Martin left the expedition at Mombassa, and by way of Mauritius made his way back to the Cape. Later he set

sail for New South Wales returning

to India around the end of 1828. He lived there for a year, before sailing back

to England in 1830. Martin became a writer. According to his own account in

1840 he had been studying colonial questions for ten years. He published fifty

thousand volumes on India and the colonies. In 1838 he was assigned an office

in Downing Street, and in a

year brought out his work on the Statistics of the Colonies of the British Empire, compiled

from official sources, but without official support. In 1840 he founded and for

two years edited December 1837 he presented a petition to the House of Commons for an amended

colonial administrative department. In 1839, as a member of the court of

the East India Company, he was

active in promoting the appointment of the commission which sat in 1840 on the

East Indian trade. Martin was a prominent witness. In January 1844 Martin was

appointed treasurer of the newly acquired island of Hong Kong, where he was

also a member of the legislative council. He continued to write and was in poor

health. In May 1845 he disagreed with the governor about raising revenue

from opium and on being refused six months' leave, resigned in

July 1845. In his reports he insisted that Hong Kong was as a British colony

doomed to failure.

After

making unsuccessful efforts to induce the Secretary of State to reinstate him,

Martin returned to a literary life, near London. In 1851 he went to Jamaica on a mission to report on the affairs of two

mining companies operating there. Martin married Jane Avis Frances Keith in

1826. She eloped with Dr. John Sheridan (1805–1858) and emigrated to South

Australia, where they were important colonists. In 1847 the marriage was

dissolved by Parliament, and he married Eliza Barron, later as Eliza Phillips known in bird welfare.

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