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Stapleton Martin
1846–1922
Best known for writing on literary and family history, this English barrister also had a small first-class cricket career. His books include studies of Izaak Walton and Anna Seward, showing a clear interest in biography, place, and the texture of English literary life.
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Anna Seward, and Classic Lichfield
by Stapleton Martin
About the author
Born in London in 1846, Stapleton Martin—also recorded as John Stapleton Martin—was an English barrister who also played first-class cricket. He was educated at Westminster School and Christ Church, Oxford, and later joined the legal profession at Lincoln's Inn.
Alongside law, he wrote books with a strong historical and biographical flavor. Confirmed works include Izaak Walton and His Friends, Anna Seward and Classic Lichfield, and History of the Martin Family. These suggest a writer drawn to literary figures, local history, and the lives that gather around them.
He died in Worcestershire in 1922. Although not widely read today, his surviving books still offer a window into the late Victorian and Edwardian taste for careful, bookish exploration of people, places, and family history.