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CLAUD MARTIN (1735-1800)

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Originally appearing in Volume V17, Page 794 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MARTIN (1735-1800)  , See also:French adventurer and officer in the See also:army of the See also:English See also:East See also:India See also:Company, was See also:born at See also:Lyons on the 4th of See also:January 1735, the son of a See also:cooper . He went out to India in 1751 to serve under See also:Dupleix and See also:Lally in the Carnatic See also:wars . When See also:Pondicherry See also:fell in 1761, he seems, like others of his countrymen, to have accepted service in the See also:Bengal army of the English, obtaining an See also:ensign's See also:commission in 1763, and steadily rising to the See also:rank of See also:major-See also:general . He was employed on the See also:building of the new Fort See also:William at See also:Calcutta, and afterwards on the survey of Bengal under See also:Rennell . In 1776 he was allowed to accept the See also:appointment of See also:superintendent of the See also:arsenal of the See also:nawab of Oudh at See also:Lucknow, retaining his rank but being ultimately placed on See also:half pay . He acquired a large See also:fortune, and on his See also:death (See also:Sept . 13, 1800) he bequeathed his residuary See also:estate to found institutions for the See also:education of See also:European See also:children at Lucknow, Calcutta and Lyons, all known by the name of " La Martiniere." That at Lucknow is the best known . It was housed in the See also:palace that he had built called See also:Constantia, which, though damaged during the See also:Mutiny, retains many See also:personal memorials of its founder . See S . C . See also:Hill, The See also:Life of Claud See also:Martin (Calcutta, 1901) .

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