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- Sir Richard later held office as Master of the Mint & Lord Mayor of London.
. 1594-5. Goldsmith to Queen Elizabeth I.
. 1559, Warden of Royal Mint
. 1652-1594, Martin was knighted by Queen Elizabeth
. 1593-1602, President Christ's Hospital
. 1578 May 29, Alderman, city of London
. 1580-1617, Master of Royal Mint
. 1581 , Sheriff, London
. 1602 Aug 21, Removed as Alderman because being in poverty & imprisonment for debt.
. 1602 Dec 20, Received 1000 marks as a condition of his retirement.
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Brothers Richard & Nathaniel Martin also worked at the Royal Mint with their father, the former as master & the latter as a clerk. Sir Richard was accused of misusing money deposited into his care at the Mint in 1597 & forced to resign as master in 1599. Sir Richard had a longstanding interest in overseas enterprise, investing in Martin Frobisher's 1577 arctic voyage (defaulted), Sir Francis Drake's circumnavigation voyage (1577-80), & investing in at least one of Sir Walter Raleigh's ventures. Sir Richard assisted John in obtaining his first commission in Drake's West Indies voyage (1585-86).
(He is not the same as the Mr. Richard Martin (1570-1618) who was the recorder of London, counsel for the Virginia Company & organizer of The Society of Martin's Hundred, whose subsidiary "particular plantation" development c. 1618-19 was known as Martin's Hundred.
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1533 - 1616 (83 years)