RARE "Scottish Poet" Theodore Martin Signed Clipped Page For Sale
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RARE "Scottish Poet" Theodore Martin Signed Clipped Page:
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Theodore Martin KCB KCVO (16
September 1816 – 18 August 1909) was a Scottish poet, biographer, and
translator. Martin was the son of James Martin, a solicitor in Edinburgh, where Theodore was born and educated at the Royal High School and University. He practised
as a solicitor in Edinburgh 1840–45, after which he went to London and became
head of the firm of Martin and Leslie, parliamentary agents. His
first contribution to literature was the humorous Bon Gaultier Ballads,
written along with W.E. Aytoun, which
remained popular for a long time; originally contributed to a magazine, they
appeared in book form in 1845. Martin's translations include Dante's Vita Heine's Poems and Ballads, Friedrich Schiller's Wilhelm Tell, and Hertz's King René's Daughter. He also published a complete translation
of Horace with a Life, and one of Catullus. He is probably best known for his Life of the Prince Consort (1874–80), the writing of
which was entrusted to him by Queen Victoria,
a work which won him her lifelong friendship. He also wrote Lives of
Professor Aytoun and Lord Lyndhurst. In 1851 he married Helena Faucit, a well-known actress, and author of studies
on Shakespeare's Female Characters, whose Life he
published in 1901. The couple lived for some time at Bryntysilio {The Hill of St. Tyssilio} which he bought in 1861, near Llangollen, where in 1889 they were visited by the queen
during her progress in Wales. Martin kept up his intellectual activity into old
age, published in 1905 a translation of Leopardi's poems, and Monographs (1906). He was Lord Rector of St. Andrews
1881, LL.D. of Edinburgh 1875, and Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath 1880. He died in 1909 and is buried
in Brompton Cemetery, London.
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