Philip Martin of Leeds Castle

Male, #38699, (before 12 Aug 1733 - before 11 Aug 1821)

Father*Denny Martin of Salts in Loose, Kent, Esq. (s 1700 - )
Mother*Frances Fairfax (b 19 Nov 1703 - 13 Dec 1791)
Philip Martin of Leeds Castle|b. before 12 Aug 1733\nd. before 11 Aug 1821|p38699.htm|Denny Martin of Salts in Loose, Kent, Esq.|b. say 1700|p37818.htm|Frances Fairfax|b. before 19 Nov 1703\nd. 13 Dec 1791|p37817.htm|||||||Thomas Fairfax Fifth Lord Fairfax of Cameron|b. 1657\nd. 6 Jan 1710|p8949.htm|Catherine Culpeper|b. 1670\nd. May 1719|p8948.htm|

Birth*before 12 Aug 1733 Philip was born before 12 Aug 1733. 
Baptism12 Aug 1733 He was baptized at Loose, co. Kent, England, on 12 Aug 1733.  
 He was the son of Denny Martin of Salts in Loose, Kent, Esq. and Frances Fairfax. 
Burial*11 Aug 1821 His body was interred on 11 Aug 1821 at Loose, co. Kent, England. 
Death*before 11 Aug 1821 He died before 11 Aug 1821. 
Biography* O.s.p.
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He was baptised in Loose, August 12, 1733, as 'Philip, the son of Denny Martin, gent. and of Frances his wife;' entered the army in the artillery arm; was present throughout the siege of Gibraltar of 1779-83, when he had the cock of his hat shot off by a 26 pound ball, was mentioned in dispatches and promoted (Drinkwater, History of the Siege of Gibraltar, 1785; Spilsbury's Journal, 1908). Emerging from that adventure as a major, he subsequently rose by seniority to be a major general.
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On the death of his elder brother, Denny (1800), he succeeded to Leeds Castle; and there, attended by his three maiden sisters, lived out his life unmarried.
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Being vested by the will of his brother Denny (1798) with the Virginia manor of Leeds, he divested himself of that property by a deed dated October 15, 1806 (of which a copy survives in the Fauquier record of Marshall v. Foley, Land Causes Book B: 267) and thereby finally broke the chain which had bound the Culpepers to Virginia since 1609.
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He was buried in the vault at Loose, August 11, 1821, as 'General Philip Martin, Leeds Castle, 88.' As he survived his sisters and was the last leaf on his own family tree, as well as on that of his branch of the Culpepers, he sought and found an heir among the Wykehams, who were remote kinsmen on his father's side; and to him left Leeds Castle and £30,000 in the funds, being, in large part, the proceeds of Thomas Bryan Martin's lands in Virginia (which he had inherited from his sisters) under the following will:
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P.C.C. Mansfield, 514.
Will dated September 29, 1817,
with codicil dated April 23, 1819.
Proved September 19, 1821.
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Philip Martin of Leeds Castle, co. Kent, esq., a General in H. Army. All to Fiennes Wykeharn with the request that he assume the name and arms of Martin [which he duly did as Wykeham-Martin, leaving descendants who, under that name, have since resided at Leeds Castle]. Rev. Sir John Filmer, of East Sutton, Kent, Bt. & William Baldwin, of StreethilI, Kent, esq., to be executors.
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(Source: Fairfax Harrison, "The Proprietors of the Northern Neck"). 

Charts The Culpepers of Hollingbourne, from 1539 to present? (Possibly extinct)
Last Edited 14 Sep 2002