3-065-959 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Mr. A. G. Marten, M.P. for Cambridge, 1874. Engraving from a photograph by Elliott and Fry. 'Mr. Alfred George Marten, Q.C., M.P. for the borough of Cambridge, is a son of the late Robert Giles Marten, Esq , of Plaistow, Essex, by Eliza, daughter of the late John Warmington, Esq. Mr. Marten is a late Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge, having graduated nineteenth wrangler in the mathematical tripos 1856, and stood first in a bracket in the civil law classes 1854-5. He has been a member of the Board of Legal Studies and examiner in law in the University of Cambridge. He delivered a course of public lectures on law in the hall of St. John's College in the years 1867 and 1868. He was called to the Bar at the Inner Temple in January, 1857, obtaining a certificate of honour of the first class in the examination of the Council of Legal Education, established by the four Inns of Court. He was appointed one of her Majesty's Counsel in February last, and practises in the Court of Chancery. He is the author of a paper "On the Judicial Constitution of the Court of Chancery, and its Methods of Procedure in Court and in Chambers." Mr. Marten is a Conservative, and unsuccessfully contested Nottingham in July, 1865'. From "Illustrated London News", 1874.