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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.
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.
Martineau family, a dynasty originating in Norwich, England, including prominent politicians and Unitarians Edith Martineau (1842–1909), British watercolour painter; Harriet Martineau (1802–1876), writer and pioneer sociologist; James Martineau (1805–1900), philosopher; John Martineau (1789–1832), English sugar refiner and engineer
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.
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.
John Martineau - John Edmund Martineau's great-great grandfather - was an early part-owner of Whitbreads in the 1800s, when in 1812 Whitbread had merged with the Martineau Brewery. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] However, John Martineau died in an industrial accident in a yeast vat in the brewery in 1834 and his shares in Whitbread passed to his son Richard (1804 ...
Greenhow's first wife was Elizabeth Martineau (1794–1850), who succumbed to tuberculosis after producing four children. [38] She was a daughter of Thomas Martineau and Elizabeth Rankin, of the prosperous, socially reformist Martineau family, mainly based in Birmingham.