Sidney Harris Cox Martin

Sidney Harris Cox Martin (8 April 1860, Jamaica – 22 September 1924) was a British physiological chemist, physician, and medical school professor.

Early life Sidney Martin was the second son of John Ewers Martin (1826–1893), who married Matilda Elizabeth Slayter (b. 1833) in August 1857 in Kingston, Jamaica. Sidney Martin graduated in 1878 with a B.Sc. from University College London, where he was influenced by Ray Lankester. Sidney Martin studied medicine at the University College London, where he learned physiology and experimental pathology from Sanderson, and qualified M.R.C.S. in 1882. and (the now discredited concept of) ptomaine poisoning to Clifford Allbutt's A System of Medicine. Martin also contributed to the 3rd edition of Quain's Dictionary of Medicine and to Gibson's Textbook of Medicine.

He gave the Goulstonian Lectures in 1892, the Croonian Lectures in 1898, and the Lumleian Lectures in 1915.

Martin was elected in 1891 a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and in 1895 a Fellow of the Royal Society. He died on 22 September 1924.

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