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The Martineau family is an intellectual, business (banking, breweries, textile manufacturing) [1] and political dynasty associated first with Norwich and later also London and Birmingham, England. Many members of the family have been knighted.
Violet Isabel Martineau was the only daughter of the barrister and Justice of the peace John Martineau (1834–1910) of Walsham-le-Willows, Suffolk, [6] and Louisa Amabel, née Adeane (d.1894). [3] The family knew Lewis Carroll (Charles Dodgson), whose home Violet visited.
Harriet Martineau (12 June 1802 – 27 June 1876) was an English social theorist. [3] She wrote from a sociological, holistic, religious and feminine angle, translated works by Auguste Comte, and, rare for a woman writer at the time, earned enough to support herself. [4]
Gertrude Martineau (1837 [1] – 1 May 1924) [2] was a British watercolour painter, woodcarver, and teacher. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] She was one of the earliest female professors at Bedford College for Women , where she directed the school of art.
Articles relating to the Martineau family, an intellectual, business and political dynasty associated first with Norwich and later also London and Birmingham, England.The family were prominent Unitarians; a room in London's Essex Hall, the headquarters building of the British Unitarians, was named after them.
Peter Finch Martineau was active in various distinct businesses through his life. He was first a textile dyer in Norwich with his older brother David. He, David and their younger brother John then established a brewery at the King's Arms Stairs (one of the watermen's stairs on the Thames), which merged with Whitbread in 1812. [8]