Sir Richard Martin, 1st Baronet, of Overbury Court

[2] He was educated at Harrow School and at Exeter College, Oxford, before joining his maternal grandfather's bank.

[4] Several of his ancestors had held the seat in the past, but Richard was the last Martin to represent Tewkesbury.

[3] The Parliamentary Borough of Tewkesbury was abolished under the Reform Act 1885 and replaced with a wider county division of Gloucestershire.

He finally returned to Parliament at the 1892 general election as MP for the Droitwich division of Worcestershire, replacing the Liberal Unionist John Corbett, who had retired.

[1] He was Prime Warden of the Fishmongers' Company from 1899 to 1900,[6] and President of the Royal Statistical Society from 1906 to 1907.