Admiral Sir Henry Byam Martin KCB

Order of the Bath

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 (25 June 1803 – 9 February 1865) was a senior Royal Navy officer and watercolour artist.

Naval career

Martin was born in 1803 the second son of Admiral of the Fleet Sir Thomas Byam Martin

Thomas Byam Martin

Admiral Sir Thomas Byam Martin, GCB was a highly influential British Royal Navy officer who served at sea during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars and then as a naval administrator until his death in 1854...

 comptroller

Comptroller

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 of the navy

Royal Navy

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 (1815–1831). Educated at the Royal Naval College Martin first went to sea in October 1818, by 1840 he was Captain in charge of HMS Carsyfort

HMS Carysfort (1836)

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 off the coast of Syria when he was involved in action off Tartus during the Syrian War

Syrian War

The Syrian War is the name generally given to the war of 1839-40 fought in the Middle East, also known as the Second Syrian War, mainly on territory that is now Lebanon, between the Allied Powers of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Austrian Empire, the Russian Empire and the...

 and he took part in the capture of Acre

Acre, Israel

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 on 3 November 1840. His actions earned him an appointment as a Commander of the Order of the Bath

Order of the Bath

The Most Honourable Order of the Bath is a British order of chivalry founded by George I on 18 May 1725. The name derives from the elaborate mediæval ceremony for creating a knight, which involved bathing as one of its elements. The knights so created were known as Knights of the Bath...

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He was promoted to Rear-Admiral in 1854 and was appointed as a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath

Order of the Bath

The Most Honourable Order of the Bath is a British order of chivalry founded by George I on 18 May 1725. The name derives from the elaborate mediæval ceremony for creating a knight, which involved bathing as one of its elements. The knights so created were known as Knights of the Bath...

 for his work during the war with Russia in 1855.

Artist

During his travels with the Navy Martin sketched and painted what he had seen.

Family

His elder brother William Martin

Sir William Martin, 4th Baronet

Admiral Sir William Fanshawe Martin, 4th Baronet GCB , was a senior British naval officer.-Naval career:...

also became a senior naval commander.