1680            Yorks                                    Birth at Bolton, Yorks (Source Alumni Cantabridgiensis 1) (Probably Bolton Percy)Yorks

? - 1695                                                      Educated at a private school

1695-7       London                               Westminster  School

1697            Cambridge                       Matriculated St Johns College

1698            Inner Temple                 Admitted Inner Temple (Source 15)

?                      Army                                    Low Countries

1699?          Marriage 1                      To Mary Gibbs (American) (dau of Colonel John Gibbs one time

                                                                        Gov of  Carolina, family returned to England 1690s. No marriage

                                                                        record found for Martin,  Mary died before 1723 (source 33) ref

                                                                        renewal of lease Rutland. Mary alive in 1709, so died bet 1709-23.

1700            Dau born                           Approx birth date for Isabella (heir) daughter, no birth record found

1702            Son born                            George Monk Bladen (son) born – St Martin in the Fields, Westminster,

                                                                         London (Source IGI)

1700s          early                                    Possible dates for birth of 2^nd daughter?

1705            Poetry                                 Wrote a tragic-comedy (printed without consent) (source 12)

1709            Army                                    Appointed Colonel. Wife Mary still alive.

1710            Retired Army

1710            Inheritance                     Resolution of legal case (reference George Monck). Substantial inheritance.

1712            Writing                               See 1714

1713            Politics                               Defeated as MP Saltash, Cornwall. Whig (source 58)

1713            Appointment                 MP for Kinsale, Ireland (Source 56)

1713            Letter                                  Referred to In his father’s letter to his sister, i.e. Nathaniel Bladen 

                                                                        to Frances Hammond, pays Frances’ creditors and in March 1713.

                                                                        Returns from a visit to Lord Gallaway

1714            Writing                               Translated Caesar’s Commentaries on his Wars in Gaul (Though Suffolk parish/

                                                                        probate records show a copy of this book in 1712 with Robert Rushbrook,

                                                                        Ickworth, Suffolk–related to Earls of  (Source 55) Bristol

1714            Appointment                 Comptroller of the Royal Mint 1714-27

1715            Politics                               Defeated as MP Saltash, Cornwall

1715            Appointment                 MP for Stockbridge, Hampshire (till 1734) (Cox’s Hampshire shows him still here

                                                                        in 1738)Source 50

1715            Appointment                 MP for Bandon, Irish Parliament (till 1727)

1715            Appointment                 Secretary to the Duke of Grafton, Lord Justice of Ireland

1717            Appointment                 Commissioner of the Board of Trade, Trade & Plantations

1719            Paris                                    Attended Conference (boundaries re UK/French N. America)

1721            Report                                To the King 8 Sep 1721 on condition & government of colonies

1722            approx                                Renewed lease on Ketton in Rutland prior to 1723

1726            Will                                       Wrote his Will, daughter Isabella heir (plus Porters mentioned) (Source 16)

                                                                        (possibly son and 1^st wife dead by now) Address on Will

                                                                        St George Hanover Square, London

1728            2^nd Marriage                   To Frances Foch (d.1747) St Martin in the Fields, Westminster Through Frances,

                                                                        acquires great wealth & land in West Indies

?                      Turned down                  Appointment as Envoy to Spain

1730            House build                    Aldbrough Hatch, rebuilt at great expense (source 37)

1731            Politics                               Defended the sugar bills of 1731-2 in the commons

1732            Antwerp                            Attended conference ref tariffs

1732            Bladen County              N. Carolina Assembly in Edenton ordered a county to be named After him –

                                                                        Bladen County. (source 58)

1733            Politics                               Supported the Molasses Act of 1733

1734            Appointment                 MP for Maldon, Essex (till 1741 – source 58)

1737            Royal visit                        Visits William IV of Orange at Breda

1739            Politics                               Produced report ref North America

1741            Appointment                 MP for Portsmouth (till death in 1746)

 

1746            Inventory                          Heir – Isabella to get Ketton in Rutland

1746            Inventory                          Property at Barmoor Castle, Northumberland

                                                                        Aldbrough Hatch,

                                                                        St George Hanover Square

                                                                        Hackney

                                                                        Money owed to Martin from several tenants of the manor of Stepney

                                                                        “                        “   Barking

                                                                        “                        “  island of Nevis in North America

                                                                        Dividends due from South Sea Company

                                                                        Cash due from government ref Commissioner of Trade

                                                                        “     “   Treasury ref Commission of Antwerp (Source 5)

 

Memorial Inscription

Sacred to the memory of Martin Bladen esq of Albro Hatch in the county of Essex, one of his majesty’s most honourable privy council in the kingdom of Ireland, lord commissioner for trade and plantations, first commissary and plenipotentiary to the conference at Antwerp and member of parliament. His merit and abilities gained him the esteem of his prince, who employed him in posts of great trust and consequence, in private life he was a Christian philosopher, an indulgent master, a kind relation, a faithful friend, a polite companion, always disinterested and humane, charitable and generous. He fought not for employments, though he was equal to all the crown conferred upon him, for his taste was retreat, but when called from thence to engage in his prince’s service, he supported it with dignity and acquitted himself with reputation. He departed this life the 15^th of February 1746 aged 66 years.