28 Facts About Kingsley Martin

Basil Kingsley Martin usually known as Kingsley Martin, was a British journalist who edited the left-leaning political magazine the New Statesman from 1930 to 1960.

Kingsley Martin was the son of Basil Martin, a Congregationalist minister, and his wife, Alice Charlotte Turberville, daughter of Thomas Charles Turberville of Islington, born on 28 July 1897 in Ingestre Street, Hereford; Irene Barclay was his elder sister.

Kingsley Martin's father had been minister at the Eign Brook Chapel since 1893; located on Eign Street, Hereford, it is the Eignbrook United Reformed Church.

Basil Martin was a principled socialist and pacifist, and was unpopular in the city.

Kingsley Martin was a day boy at Hereford Cathedral School, where he was unhappy.

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Basil Kingsley Martin took up a place at Finchley Unitarian Church, where his pacifism made him somewhat isolated.

Kingsley Martin was first sent on a sea voyage to South Africa, for his health.

Kingsley Martin stayed with his maternal uncle Frank Turberville on a farm near Grahamstown, now Makhanda, Eastern Cape, returning to his family in January 1914.

Kingsley Martin then went to Mill Hill School, under its head John Mclure.

Kingsley Martin entered the Sixth Form: in the "classical sixth" he pursued a traditional course of Latin and Greek.

Kingsley Martin did not join the school's Officers' Training Corps ; but his close friend Thomas Applebee, a year older, did, was conscripted, and was killed in 1916 a few days after arriving in France.

Kingsley Martin presented in evidence a letter from the head of the school OTC, and his father spoke to the tribunal.

Kingsley Martin was sent for initial training to Jordans, Buckinghamshire.

Kingsley Martin then spent an extended period at the Star and Garter Hospital, Richmond.

Kingsley Martin gained a double first in two parts of the Historical Tripos, and his college awarded him a bye-fellowship, which he used to visit Princeton University for a year.

Kingsley Martin joined the Union of Democratic Control: a 1921 revival meeting he organised, addressed by Norman Angell, was broken up by students.

Kingsley Martin supported Dalton who was Labour candidate in the March 1922 Cambridge by-election.

In 1924 Kingsley Martin was offered a teaching job at the London School of Economics, under Laski.

Kingsley Martin remained there for three years, and then took a position as a leader writer at the Manchester Guardian.

Kingsley Martin left in part because he had been clashing with William Beveridge, the director of the School.

Kingsley Martin became editor of the New Statesman at the beginning of 1931.

Kingsley Martin remained at the New Statesman until 1960, when he retired.

Kingsley Martin became disillusioned with the Soviet Union after the Hitler–Stalin Pact, which he denounced; in response the Communist Party Daily Worker ran an editorial attacking Martin.

Kingsley Martin supported the policy of demanding an unconditional surrender from Nazi Germany.

Kingsley Martin married in 1926 Olga Walters, daughter of Dr Frederick Rufenacht Walters, a physician and medical officer of health who ran a sanatorium at Tongham; they divorced in 1940.

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Kingsley Martin then became romantically involved with the activist Dorothy Woodman.

Kingsley Martin died in the Anglo-American Hospital, Cairo, on 16 February 1969 after a heart attack.

Kingsley Martin was through and through a Humanist and a life-long champion of Humanist causes.