Three medals to Commander (later Rear-Admiral) Francis Marten, Royal Navy: Naval General Service

Three medals to Commander (later Rear-Admiral) Francis Marten, Royal Navy: Naval General Service 1793-1840, clasp: Syria (FRANCIS MARTEN, MATE); Baltic 1854-55, unnamed as issued; India General Service 1949-95, clasp: Pegu (FRANS. MARTEN. SENR. LIEUT. "WINCHESTER"), all good very fine, all toned (uneven in places), [3]; mounted for display and presented in a later Spink box with ivorine label 'ADMIRAL F. MARTEN R.N 1814-1869'*.

By descent

Francis Marten was born in Hertfordshire in 1814. He served in the 6-gun steam paddle sloop H.M.S. Phoenix in the bombardment of Acre in 1840 and was commissioned Lieutenant in 1844. Following service in the Second Anglo-Burmese War of 1852-53 he was promoted Commander in 1854 (possibly as the 'haul down' nomination of Sir Fleetwood Pellew) and in this capacity he served as second in command of H.M.S. Exmouth in the Baltic. He retired as a Captain in 1870 and was made Rear Admiral on the retired list in 1877. He died - *not in 1869 - but on the 17th July 1891.