EDWARD ESPY MARTIN

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 87, 9 October 1931, Page 8

EDWARD ESPY MARTIN

DEATH IN MELBOURNE

GIFT TO WELLINGTON

COLLEGE

Old Wellington College Boyg of the 'seventies will regret to learn of the death of Mr. Edward Espy Martin, which occurred at Melbourne on 18th January. The Board of Governor* of Wellington College recently received intimation from the trustees administering the will that £500 had been bequeathed by him for the purpose of establishing a scholarship •at his old sc" 001. The following is the text of the bequest:—"l give and bequeath to the Governors of the Wellington College, Wellington, New Zealand, the sum of five hundred pounds, to be invested by them and half the incoras derived from such investment is to be applied for the purpose of establishing a scholarship in connection with the promotion of tho interests of science, and the other half is to be applied for the purpose of providing ordinary college prizes in each year." The late Mr. Martin ("Ted" Martin, as he was generally called in his school days) was the third son of the Hon. John Martin, M.L.C., and was born at Fountain Hall, Ghuznee street, Te Aro, on the 20th May, 1858. He and his elder brother, William J., were admitted to the college as weekly boarders on the came day 21st April, 1870. He was studiously inclined, and also won distinction at the college athletic sports of 1875, when he won the college cup. He was removed at the end of the first term of 1876, and went to assist on his father's run at Martinborough. Ten years later he went to Australia, where his life's work was successful and happy. He was interested in music, and, like many another old Wellington College boy, continued his studies in botany unabated in after-life. He was unmarried. He only revisited New Zealand once, on the occasion of his father* death; Australia was his home.

During the seventh decade of the last century four Martins in all, W. J., E. E., Albert, and Arthur, attended the college. All were endowed with brains and bodily activity, and left their names on the school records.