14 Facts About Martineau family

Martineau family is an intellectual, business and political dynasty associated first with Norwich and later London and Birmingham, England.

The family were prominent Unitarians; a room in London's Essex Hall, the headquarters building of the British Unitarians, was named after them.

Martineau family built Bracondale Hall, described in 1847 as a "handsome mansion with pleasure grounds delightfully laid out".

Second son, David Martineau family, had four sons and six daughters and the third, Peter Finch Martineau family, had four sons and two daughters.

Martineau family spent his life in Norwich, where he was a deacon of its Unitarian church, the Octagon Chapel, from 1797.

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Martineau family married Elizabeth Rankin, who had her portrait painted a year before her death by a member of the Bonham Carter family.

Thomas and Elizabeth Martineau family's eldest child was a daughter, Elizabeth, who married Dr Thomas Greenhow, a reforming doctor in Newcastle, co-founder of the city's eye infirmary.

Martineau family hired John Barnsley to build a mansion in Edgbaston, with a large wing for his mother, who lived there till her death in 1848, and another for his own family.

Martineau family was a guest teacher in Liverpool where his sister, Rachel, ran a private girls' school which was attended by Elizabeth Gaskell's daughters.

Sir Thomas Martineau was the son of Robert and Jane Martineau, born on the family estate on Bristol Road, now Martineau Gardens.

Martineau family married Emily Kenrick, whose family was part of Liberal Birmingham politics.

Martineau family was invited later in 1887 to Windsor Castle where he was knighted by the Queen.

Martineau family died on 28 July 1893 and is buried alongside his family at Key Hill Cemetery.

The siblings' great-nephew, Francis Martineau family Lupton, was the great-great-grandfather of Catherine, Princess of Wales, the gallery's patron.