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The article begins by outlining Martin's life and politics, and the political and intellectual background to the History.!
Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Martin, Robert Montgomery
MARTIN, ROBERT MONTGOMERY (1803?–1808), historical writer and statistician, is said to have been born in co.
Tyrone, Ireland, about 1803, and to have been one of a very large and respectable family, he himself refers to his having studied medicine, but where does not appear, and a careful search renders it probable that he took no diploma.
About 1820 he went out to Ceylon, where he ' lived under the patronage of Sir Hardinge Giffard, his father's friend,' exploring the island thoroughly, according to his own account ; thence he travelled to the Cape of Good Hope, where he arrived in June 1823, and joined the expedition of his majesty's ships Leven and Barracouta to Delagoa Bay in a temporary capacity as assistant surgeon, serving as such and as botanist and naturalist 'on the coasts of Africa, Madagascar, and the South-Eastern Islands.' On 10 Nov.
1824 he left it at Mombassa, and by way of Mauriti