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 Legislative Council, 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. 

EAS 21 Nov 1931 He passed the Indian Civil Service exam and was appointed a cadet in the Malay States. After holding various administrative and secretarial posts there he was seconded to Kenya as temporary Assistant Secretary on January 17 1917 and arrived in the country on 3 March 1917. Then until 20 October 1919 he was employed in the Secretariat and then was appointed Commissioner of Lands and exoficio member of the Legislative Council. During 1919 he was a member of the Soldier Settlement Scheme Board. In 1923 he received the additional appointment of Commissioner of Mines and Registrar General of Titles. In 1926 he was a member of the Commission on Local Government. He was deeply interested in questions of the forward development of the colony particularly in regard to closer settlement. Was a frequent adviser to Sir Edward Grigg on subjects of this nature. On 1 January 1928 he was appointed Commissioner of Local Government, Lands and Settlement which he remained until his death. Ex-officio Member of the Legislative and Executive Councils. He was appointed CBE in 1928. His chief hobbies were fishing and gardening. He showed great interest in the activities of the Kenya Angling Association and was its president. He recently built a house in Nairobi and devoted much time to gardening. He was taken ill about a week ago and developed pneumonia.