Sir Henry Martin , 1st Baronet Captain Henry Martin , 1st Baronet ( 1733 – 1794 ) was a naval commander whose final appointment was Comptroller of the Navy 1790 – 1794 . Martin was born at Shroton House , Dorset , 29 August 1733 . On the death of his brother George in 1748 he became the eldest surviving son of the second marriage of Samuel Martin , plantation owner of Antigua to Sarah née Wyke , 20 , widow of William Irish , plantation owner of Montserrat in the West Indies . Career . Martin was educated at the Portsmouth naval academy and privately by Dr Pemberton . He was appointed a Captain in the Royal Navy and served in American and West Indian waters in the Seven Years War . He married in 1761 and after the conclusion of the peace treaties in early 1763 they lived at Bishopstown near Cork where he had a leasehold farm . Considered by his father to be ' self - diffident ' and in ' want of that assurance so necessary to push his way to preferment ' he was given the goad of being let survive with some difficulty on limited resources from prize money and his father ' s marriage settlement . He returned to the Navy briefly in 1770 during a war scare and thereafter lived at Bath where his father joined them . In 1780 he was appointed resident naval commissioner at Portsmouth and acquitted himself competently for ten years . As commissioner he twice played host to the young Prince William , later William IV , the adroit handling of whose involvement with Martin ' s daughter bore him credit with King George III . Harry Martin succeeded his half - brother , Samuel as a plantation owner in Antigua in 1788 . In March 1790 he was appointed Comptroller of the Navy and later that year was elected Member of Parliament for Southampton . He was created a baronet 28 July 1791 , Martin of Lockynge , Berkshire . Family . Henry Martin married , 26 November 1761 , Eliza Anne Gillman , daughter of Harding Parker of Passage West county Cork and widow of St Leger Hayward Gillman of Gillmansville county Cork . They had four sons and four daughters . < br > Their youngest son , Admiral Sir Thomas Byam Martin was also Comptroller of the Navy 1816 – 1831 . He died at his Town House , 51 Upper Harley Street , London on Friday , 1 August 1794 a few weeks before his 61st birthday . " In the death of Sir Henry Martin , Baronet , late Comptroller of the Navy , the world has been deprived of one of its nobleft ornaments ; for as fuch , muft ever be efteemed a character replete with every virtue that can dignify human nature . His lofs in public and private will be feverely felt . The uprightness of his actions in his public capacity is too well known to need the teftimony of an individual ; and in private life , thofe who were fo happy as to know him beft , daily faw in him the kind indulgent hufband , the tender affectionate father , the firm and faithful friend . The benevolence of his mind fhone conspicuous in every action of his life . He lived adored by his family , beloved , efteemed , admired by his numerous acquaintance . He died fincerely lamented by all ; and to fum up his character in one fhort line , " The feat of every virtue was his heart ! " " External links .