[3] Marten was a professional bowler on the MCC ground staff at Lord's.
[4] He played for MCC sides between 1867 ad 1871, including making three first-class appearances for the club, and played non-first-class cricket for a wide variety of teams, including for Essex sides before the county had first-class status.
Marten took six wickets for 11 runs in the MCC first innings, his career best bowling figures, but failed to take a wicket in his 21 four-ball overs in the second innings.
[3] He died at Stoke Newington in London in November 1907 aged 62.
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