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MARTIN, WILLIAM (1767-1810)

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Originally appearing in Volume V17, Page 795 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MARTIN, See also:WILLIAM (1767-1810) , See also:English naturalist, the son of a hosier, was See also:born at See also:Mansfield, See also:Nottinghamshire, in 1767. He studied See also:drawing at an See also:early See also:age from See also:James See also:Bolton at See also:Halifax, and gained from him a See also:taste for the study of natural See also:history. In 1805 he was appointed drawing See also:master in the See also:gram-See also:mar school at See also:Macclesfield. Meanwhile he cultivated his taste for natural history, and was in 1796 elected a See also:fellow of the Linnaean Society. He is best known for his early See also:works on See also:British fossils, entitled Petrifacta derbiensia or Figures and Descriptions of Petrifaction collected in See also:Derbyshire (1809); and Outlines of an See also:Attempt to establish a Knowledge of Extraneous Fossils on Scientific Principles (1809). He died at Macclesfield on the 31st of May 1810.

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