Henry Marten (educator)
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Sir Clarence Henry Kennett Marten
Biography
Henry Marten was born with his twin sister Isabel in Kensington, London. He was the younger son of Sir Alfred Marten and his wife Patricia and was the brother of Sir Alfred Barrington Marten, Chief Justice of the Bombay High Court from 1926-30. Marten entered Eton College, and from there matriculated at Balliol College, Oxford in 1891. In 1895, he graduated with a first-class degree in modern history and accepted an offer from Edmond Warre to return to Eton to teach history.[1]
He was a founder member of the Historical Association in 1906. In 1912, he published The Groundwork of British History with his co-author, George Townsend Warner, which became "one of the most used school textbooks of the first half of the twentieth century".[1] With E. H. Carter,[a] he wrote a school textbook for younger children, in several volumes, titled simply "Histories".[3] Other collaborative works included The Teaching of History in 1938.
In 1925, Marten narrowly missed becoming
In 1938, Marten began instructing
He died unmarried in the Provost's Lodge at Eton, where the Marten Library is named after him. The library contains his collection of books, which he bequeathed to Eton on his death.[1]
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References
- ^ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, retrieved 22 September 2009 (Subscription required)
- ^ "E. H. Carter".
- ^ a b "Histories", ("Three-year course, Book I, Our Heritage"), 1931 edition, CHK Marten and EH Carter, Basil Blackwell, Oxford
- ^ Crawford, Marion (1950). The Little Princesses. London: Cassell and Co.
- ^ "No. 36866". The London Gazette (Supplement). 29 December 1944. p. 8.
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