533 Charles Martin

Constituency : Newport ( Isle  of  Wight ) 1841-52, West  Kent  1857-9 , Newport ( Isle  of  Wight )  1865-70

Charles  took  one  of  the  two  Newport  seats  back  from  the  Tories.

Charles  was  local  gentry, educated  at  Eton  and  Oxford  and  an  antiquarian. He  first  stood  for  the seat  in  1837. He  lost  the  seat  in  1852  and  tried  at  Maidstone  in  1853. He  came  back  for  West Kent  in  a  by-election  in  1857  but  lost  in  1859.  His  son  Philip  was  MP  for  Rochester. He  owned   Leeds  Castle  in  Kent.

Charles  held  the  seat  in  1868  when  it  was  reduced  to  one  member.

He  died  in  1870  aged  69.