Sir Martin West (1804–1849) was born in England, the son of a civil servant in the Treasury.
Martin West studied at Balliol College, Oxford, before joining the British East India Company.
He served in Bombay but had to retire on grounds of ill-health and became Resident Magistrate in Grahamstown, Cape Colony.
short biographical entry describes him as "a moderate administrator, …(who) suffered from poor health and, ill-supported by the British government, … achieved negligible progress during his term of office".
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