Sir Martin John Melvin, 1st Baronet, JP (8 June 1879 – 11 May 1952) was a British businessman and newspaper manager, based in

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Melvin was educated at

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. In 1917 he acquired the ailing Catholic newspaper ''

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'', appointed Herbert S. Dean as its editor and completely overhauled the content and theological outlook of the paper. He was

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in the

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and created a Baronet, of Olton in the County of Warwick, in 1933, "For political and public services in Birmingham". Melvin died in May 1952, aged 72, when the baronetcy became extinct.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Melvin, Martin John 1879 births 1952 deaths Baronets in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom People educated at Mount St Mary's College Knights Bachelor People from Birmingham, West Midlands