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Name: MARTIN, Humfrey Trice CBE

Birth Date: 2 Sep 1888 Clifton

Death Date: 13 Nov 1931 Nairobi

First Date: 1917

Last Date: 1931

Profession: Commissioner for Lands - Kenya - 1929. Acting Chief Secretary 1930

Area: Nairobi, 1930 Box 205, Nairobi

Married: 1921 Florence Evangeline Cloete Northey b. 1898, d. 15 June 1942 (div.1929) (daughter of Sir Edward Northey, Governor 1918-22) See Florence Northey's entry

Book Reference: Debrett, Permanent Way, KAD, Red 25, Red 22, Barnes, Dominion, Nicholls, Gazette, Red 19, Midday Sun, KFA, Oscar, Markham, White Man, Red 31, Hut

School: Bath and Magdalen College, Oxford

General Information:

Nairobi Forest Road Cemetery - Humphrey Trice Martin, British, age 43, died 13/11/31
Dominion - Commissioner for Local Government, Lands & Settlement - 1930
Nicholls - Feetham's report on local government finally appeared in 1929 and its recommendations were put into effect the same year. H.T. Martin, the Municipal Engineer of Nairobi so despised as a town planner by his subordinate Henry Elliot Fitzgibbon, left Kenya and things began to improve.
Web - 1929 - Richard Millman Crofton named as co-respondent in Divorce case . Humfrey Trice Martin - appellant, respondent Florence Evangeline Cloete Martin (daughter of Sir Edward Northey)
Gazette - 12/11/1919 - Register of Voters - Nairobi, South Area - Humfrey Trice Martin - Civil Servant - The Hill
Red Book 1919 - H.T. Martin - Temporary Asst. Secretary, Secretariat
Debrett - Member of Legco, Commissioner of Lands - 1923.
KAD - Commissioner of Lands 1922.
Red 25 - Member, Kenya Land Settlement Advisory Board
Gravestone erected by some of his friends in Kenya.
Midday Sun - Daphne Moore, wife of the new Chief Secretary in 1929 wrote that Sir Edward Grigg was universally distrusted and ran the country in cahoots with two scoundrelly accomplices, Hugh Martin, the Commissioner for Lands, heavily in debt, of dubious honesty and seldom sober, and Grigg's private secretary, Eric Dutton, a devious plotter.                                                                       
Oscar - 'Grigg showed signs of proving even more pro-settler than Northey. Worse still, he had befriended Martin, the commissioner for lands, whom everyone believed to be corrupt.' ..... 'Daphne Moore reported that Martin had to be smuggled out of the country first because he was heavily in debt. The implication is that he was being protected from prosecution by Grigg. ....... Martin certainly liked high living, lived beyond his means and was hand in glove with Delamere.                               
White Man - an able young man recently transferred from the Malayan Civil Service and then promoted from a junior position in the Secretariat to the command of the Land Office by Sir Edward Northey.
Markham - 1930 - Denys Finch-Hatton staying with him - Martin's marriage had failed.
 

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