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Marten Family

 Family

Biography

Sir Alfred George Marten (1829-1910), QC, judge, Conservative MP in Cambridge, and Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge, was married to Patricia Marten (fl. 1869-1901). Their children included Sir Alfred Amberson Barrington Marten (1870-1962), who became Chief Justice of Bombay; Sir Clarence Henry Kennet Marten (1872-1948), provost of Eton and historical tutor to Queen Elizabeth II; and Isabel Caroline Patricia Marten (1872-1967). Amberson married Fanny Lois Tarn (b.1874). Other family members featured in the collection are Alfred George Marten's father Robert Giles Marten (1792-1839) and his uncle George Marten (1801-1872), and Alice Francis Ida Marten (b.1878), a missionary in South Africa.

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 Fonds

Marten Family: Papers

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7744
Scope and Contents

The papers include correspondence, some early sporting photographs from the 1880s and ephemera of public school and university life from the late nineteenth century.

Dates: 1808-1964 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).