He was born at Nansladron at St Ewe near St Austell in Cornwall , and was an only child. [1] His father was Edward Martin (born in 1843), the owner of Martin Brothers China Clay Merchants in St Austell, who lived at Treverbyn , and who also owned the Lee Moor porcelain factory in Plympton . Martin Brothers, founded in 1837, became part of English China Clays . His mother was Elizabeth Emily Birch (born in 1851 in Manchester), who had also been married previously to Walter Braithwaite who died, and she came from Salford , and her family were wealthy chalk and lime merchants; her father was William Singleton Birch, who had founded Singleton Birch , later run by his uncle Thomas Birch. His parents had married on 26 April 1877 at Lillington, Warwickshire ; he was baptised on 20 May 1878 at Lillington church. [2] He grew up in Knightsbridge . In 1891 he went to Eton College . In 1897 he went to Brasenose College, Oxford , where he was an enthusiast member of the
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