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MARTIN, SIR WILLIAM FANSHAWE (1801–1895)

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MARTIN, See also:SIR See also:WILLIAM See also:FANSHAWE (1801–1895) , See also:British See also:admiral, son of Admiral of the See also:Fleet Sir See also:Thomas Byam Martin, See also:comptroller of the See also:navy, and See also:grandson, on the See also:mother's See also:side, of See also:Captain See also:Robert Fanshawe, who commanded the " See also:Namur " 90 in See also:Rodney's victory of the 12th of See also:April 1782, was See also:born on the 5th of See also:December 1801. Entering the navy at the See also:age of twelve, his See also:father's See also:interest secured his rapid promotion: he was made a See also:lieutenant on the 15th of December 1820; on the 8th of See also:February 1823 he was promoted to be See also:commander of the " See also:Fly " See also:sloop, his See also:good service in which in support of the interests of British merchants at See also:Callao secured his promotion as captain on the 5th of See also:June 1824. He afterwards served in the Mediterranean and on the See also:home station. In 1849–1852 he was See also:commodore commanding the Channel See also:squadron, and gave See also:evidence of a remarkable aptitude for command. He was made See also:rear-admiral in May 1853, and for the next four years was See also:superintendent of See also:Portsmouth dockyard. He was made See also:vice-admiral in February 1858, and after a See also:year as a See also:lord of the See also:admiralty, was appointed commander-in-See also:chief in the Mediterranean. The discipline of the navy was then See also:bad. It was a tradition sprung from the wholesale shipment of See also:gaol-birds during the old See also:war, that the men were to be treated without See also:consideration; moreover the See also:ships had been largely filled up with " See also:bounty men" bought into the service with a £10 See also:note:without training. Out of this unpromising material Martin formed the fleet which was at that See also:time the ideal of excellence. He had no war service, and, beyond the See also:Italian disturbance of 186o--61, no opportunity for showing See also:diplomatic ability. But his memory lives as that of the reformer of discipline and the originator of a comprehensive See also:system of See also:steam manoeuvres. He became an admiral in See also:November 1863, and on the 4th of December succeeded to the baronetcy which had been conferred on his grandfather.

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appointment was the command at See also:Plymouth, 1866–1869, and in 187o he was put on the retired See also:list. In 1873 the G.C.B. was conferred on him, and in 1878 he was made rear-admiral. He died at Upton See also:Grey, near Winchfield, on the 24th of See also:March 1895. He was twice married, and See also:left, besides daughters, one son, who succeeded to the baronetcy.

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