Sir Richard Martin, 1st Baronet, of Cappagh

Sir Richard Martin, 1st Baronet JP, PC (17 March 1831 – 18 October 1901) was an Irish industrialist and a high sheriff of Dublin.

Family[]

Martin was the son of the Anglo-Irish landowner James Martin of Cappagh in the county of Dublin. He was educated at Clongowes Wood College. On 4 October 1864 he married Mary, daughter of the Queen's physician-in-ordinary, Sir Dominic Corrigan, Bt. The Irish artist Fergus Martin is his great-grandnephew.

Business and public career[]

Martin was a member of one of the oldest timber and shipowner firms in Dublin, and a successful shipping magnate in the port of Dublin. He was appointed to several public boards of the city, including the , the Loan Fund Board, and the Port and Docks Board, where he was chairman.^[1]

In 1870, he served as Prussian and North German Confederation consul in Dublin.

In 1885 he was President of the Dublin Chamber of Commerce,^[1] and on 2 June 1885 was created a Baronet, of Cappagh in the county of Dublin. In 1896 he was further honoured when he was created a member of the Privy Council of Ireland.

Sir Richard died in Dublin in October 1901, aged 70, when the title became extinct.^[1]

References[]

• Fox-Davies, Arthur Charles (editor). A Complete Peerage, Baronetage, and Knightage. Edinburgh: Grange Publishing Works, 1905.