Christopher Martyn
17th-century English politician
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Christopher Martyn ( – 26 January 1678) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons variously between 1646 and 1660. He fought in the Parliamentary army in the English Civil War
Martyn was a gentleman of Plympton and became a captain in the parliamentary army. In April 1644, he was commanding the Plymouth garrison and attacked the Royalists at New Bridge taking 200 prisoners. Two days later he repulsed a counter-attack and chased the Royalist cavalry to Plympton Bridge near where their army was stationed.
In 1646, Martyn was elected Member of Parliament for Plympton Erle in the Long Parliament. He resumed his seat in the Rump Parliament after Pride's Purge with some hesitation. In 1653, he was nominated as one of the representatives for Devon in the Barebones Parliament. He was elected as MP for Plympton Erle again in 1659 for the Third Protectorate Parliament, and was re-elected for Plympton Earle in 1660 in the Convention Parliament.
Martyn married Jane Snelling who brought him property at Plympton.
References
| title=Member of Parliament for Plympton Erle
| before= Sir Thomas Hele, 1st Baronet
| before2= Hugh Potter
| with= Hugh Potter 1646–1648
| years=1646–1653
| after= Not represented in Barebones Parliament
| title=Member of Parliament for Devon
| before= Not represented in Rump Parliament
| with= George Monck
| with2= John Carew
| with3= Thomas Saunders
| with4= James Erisey,
| with5= Francis Rous,
| with6= Richard Sweet
| years=1653
| after= Robert Rolle
Sir John Northcote, Bt
Arthur Upton
Thomas Reynell
William Morice
John Hale
Thomas Saunders
Henry Hatsell
William Bastard
William Fry
John Quick
| title=Member of Parliament for Plympton Erle
| before= Not represented in Second Protectorate Parliament
| with= Henry Hatsell 1659
| with2= Sir William Strode 1660
| years=1659–1660
| after= Sir William Strode
| after2= Thomas Hele
References
- (2016-03-04). "plympton".
- "MARTYN, Christopher (c.1617-78), of Plympton Erle, Devon. {{!}} History of Parliament Online".
- Joshua Brooking Rowe. "A history of the borough of Plympton Erle: the castle and manor of Plympton ...". J.G. Commin, 1906.
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