James Fitzgerald Martin

Major-General James Fitzgerald Martin (12 June 1876 – 14 February 1958) was a distinguished British Army officer who served as Surgeon to George VI and to the Viceroy of India.

Family

Martin was the only son of Surgeon-Colonel (d. 15 September 1923).

His father had served in the Abyssinian War of 1867 to 1868, and was present at the capture of Magdala, was mentioned in dispatches, and received the medal; Mary Latimer Hawks Moody (1883 – 1960), who was the daughter of Colonel Richard S. Hawks Moody and the granddaughter of Major-General Richard Clement Moody who was the founder of British Columbia.

Martin and his wife had one daughter Mary Charlotte (b. 20 September 1909 at The Court, Cullompton, Devon), who married, on 20 September 1929, at Holy Trinity Brompton, Gerald Dawson Kitchingman, of the Royal Engineers, by whom she had one son, Richard Martin Kitchingman (b. 1 March 1933).

Military career Martin was commissioned into the British Army as a lieutenant on 4 December 1899. and to major in 1911. He was also invested as a Knight of the Order of the Crown of Belgium.