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MARTIN, SIR THEODORE (1816-1909) , British author and translator, the son of a solicitor, was born at Edinburgh on the 16th of September 1816, and educated at the Royal High School and the University, from which he subsequently received the honorary degree of LL.D. He practised for some time as a solicitor in Edinburgh, but in 1846 went to London, where he became senior partner in the firm of Martin & Leslie, parliamentary agents. He early contributed to Fraser's Magazine and Tait's Magazine, under the signature of " Bon Gaultier," and in 1856, in conjunction with Professor Aytoun, he published the Book of Ballads under the same pseudonym. This work
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Horace ; and in 187o he wrote a volume on Horace for the series of " Ancient Classics for English Readers." In 1882 his Horatian labours were concluded by a translation of the poet's whole works, with a life and notes, in two volumes. A poetical translation of Catullus was published in 1861, followed by a privately printed volume of Poems, Original
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rector of the university of St Andrews. Martin's Life of Lord Lyndhurst, based upon papers furnished by the family, was published in 1883. In 1889 appeared The Song of the Bell, and other Translations from Schiller, Goethe, Uhland, and Others; in 1894 Madonna Pia, a Tragedy, and three Other Dramas; a translation of Leopardi's poems in 1905; and in Igor he published a biography of his wife. The kindly relations which subsisted between Queen Victoria and Sir Theodore
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The Latin text is printed, with introduction by L. Weiland, in Band XXII. of the Monumenta Germaniae historica (Hanover and Berlin, 1826 seq.). See G. Waitz , H. Brosien and others in the Neues Archiv der Gesellschaft fur altere deutsche Geschichtskunde (Hanover, 1876 seq.) ; W. Wattenbach, Deutschlands Geschichtsquellen, Band II. (Berlin, 1894); and A. Molinier, Les Sources de l'histoire de France, Tome III. (Paris, 1903).End of Article: MARTIN, SIR THEODORE (1816-1909) If you wish, you can link directly to this article.
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