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        1. This article examines perhaps the most ambitious single text on the British empire produced during the first half of the nineteenth century.
        2. Early life​​ Robert Montgomery Martin was born in Dublin, Ireland, into a Protestant family, the son of John Martin and Mary Hawkins; and trained as a doctor.
        3. After training as a physician Martin worked in Sri Lanka before joining Captain William Fitzwilliam Owen's surveying expedition to Africa as an.
        4. William Montgomery was born in London, England, and was baptised on 14 January as William John Alexander Montgomery.

          5. Early life​​ Robert Montgomery Martin was born in Dublin, Ireland, into a Protestant family, the son of John Martin and Mary Hawkins; and trained as a doctor..

          Dictionary of National Biography, /Martin, Robert Montgomery

          &#;MARTIN, ROBERT MONTGOMERY (?–), historical writer and statistician, is said to have been born in co.

          Tyrone, Ireland, about , 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 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 , 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.

          he left it at Mombassa, and by way of Mauritius made his way back to the Cape. Later he