John Martin (1692–1767) was a British banker and politician who sat in the
House of Commons
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from 1741 to 1747.

Martin was the third son of William Martin of Evesham, Worcestershire and his wife Elizabeth Knight, daughter of John Knight of Barrells, Warwickshire and was baptised on 8 July 1692. He bought
Overbury Court in 1723 from the Parsons family and rebuilt the Elizabethan manor house in the Georgian style in 1740 after a disastrous fire. He married firstly Catherine Jackson, daughter of Joseph Jackson of Sneyd Park, Gloucestershire before 1724.
He was connected with the family bank, later
Martins Bank
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, in Lombard Street by 1731 though not yet a partner. He succeeded his younger brother
James as senior partner in 1744.
Martin stood for Parliament at
Tewkesbury
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at the
1734 general election but was defeated. He was returned unopposed as
Member of Parliament for Tewkesbury in the
1741 general election. He stood as a Whig and voted with the Administration in all recorded divisions. He did not stand again in
1747.
[
Martin married secondly Anna Kinloch, a widow and kinswoman of Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire on. 21 July 1763. He died on 7 March 1767.][ His sons by his first wife ]John
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New Testament
Works
* Gospel of John, a title often shortened to John
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, Joseph
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and James were also elected to Parliament.
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1692 births
1767 deaths
British MPs 1741–1747
Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for English constituencies
British bankers