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Theodore Martin KCB KCVO (16

September 1816 – 18 August 1909) was a Scottish poet, biographer, and

translator. Martin was the son of James Martin, a solicitor in Edinburgh, where Theodore was born and educated at the Royal High School and University. He practised

as a solicitor in Edinburgh 1840–45, after which he went to London and became

head of the firm of Martin and Leslie, parliamentary agents. His

first contribution to literature was the humorous Bon Gaultier Ballads,

written along with W.E. Aytoun, which

remained popular for a long time; originally contributed to a magazine, they

appeared in book form in 1845. Martin's translations include Dante's Vita Heine's Poems and Ballads, Friedrich Schiller's Wilhelm Tell, and Hertz's King René's Daughter. He also published a complete translation

of Horace with a Life, and one of Catullus. He is probably best known for his Life of the Prince Consort (1874–80), the writing of

which was entrusted to him by Queen Victoria,

a work which won him her lifelong friendship. He also wrote Lives of

Professor Aytoun and Lord Lyndhurst. In 1851 he married Helena Faucit, a well-known actress, and author of studies

on Shakespeare's Female Characters, whose Life he

published in 1901. The couple lived for some time at Bryntysilio {The Hill of St. Tyssilio} which he bought in 1861, near Llangollen, where in 1889 they were visited by the queen

during her progress in Wales. Martin kept up his intellectual activity into old

age, published in 1905 a translation of Leopardi's poems, and Monographs (1906). He was Lord Rector of St. Andrews

1881, LL.D. of Edinburgh 1875, and Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath 1880. He died in 1909 and is buried

in Brompton Cemetery, London.