Sir Richard Martin, 1st Baronet, of Overbury Court

Sir Richard Biddulph Martin, 1st Baronet (* May 12, 1838; † August 23, 1916 ) was a British banker and politician of the Liberal Party and the Liberal Unionists.

Martin was the elder of two sons of Robert Martin (1808-1897) from the village of Overbury Court at Tewkesbury in Gloucestershire and his wife Mary Ann († 1892), daughter of John Biddulph of Bankhaus Cocks, Biddulph & Co. Robert Martin was a partaker of the Grasshopper Bank, which changed its name later under the name of Martins Bank.

He first went to the Harrow School and to the Exeter College before joining the Bank of his maternal grandfather. Later he became one of the founders of North Borneo Chartered Company and the Institute of Bankers.

At the general election in 1868 to the House of Commons, he ran unsuccessfully in constituency East Worcestershire. Was also unsuccessful in his candidacy in the April 1880 general election, in which he took for the electoral district London city center.

By contesting the outcome of the general election, he could already kanditieren three months later in July 1880, the by-election and won the seat as an MP for the constituency of Tewkesbury. Some of his ancestors had already held this seat in the past, but Richard was the last of the Martins, who represented the electoral district of Tewkesbury. The Parliament Tewkesbury District was dissolved under the Reform Act in 1885 and became part of the larger electoral district of Gloucestershire.

At the general election in 1885 he was, however, no longer up for re-election in the new constituency, but instead ran in the constituency of Chelmsford in the County of Essex - but without success.

When the Liberal Party quarreled in the dispute over the bill to self-government of Ireland, Martin joined the breakaway Liberal Unionists and ran as a liberal candidate for the constituency Ashburton, Devon - again unsuccessfully. Only in the elections for the lower house in 1892, he became the successor to the retiring age reasons British industrialist John Corbett his return to Parliament for the constituency of Droitwich. Until the elections in 1906, he was Member of Parliament for Droitwich.

On December 12, 1905, he was a baronet of Overbury Court in Gloucestershire. Because he died childless, the title became extinct with his death.

He was 1906-1907 President of the Royal Statistical Society.