Colonel Sir Richard Edward Rowley Martin KCB KCMG (2 September 1847 – 15 May 1907) was a British Army officer and colonial official.
[1] Martin purchased a commission in the 77th (East Middlesex) Regiment of Foot in 1867; he subsequently transferred into the 6th (Inniskilling) Dragoons.
Between 1890 and 1895 he served as British Representative on the late Provisional Government Committee in Swaziland, and was made Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George in 1895.
[3] Martin subsequently became Commandant-General of the British South Africa Company's police in Bechuanaland, Matabeleland and Mashonaland until 1898.
He was made Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath in the 1898 Birthday Honours.