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24-643: Martin White may refer to: Martin White (politician) (1857–1928), Scottish businessman and Liberal Member of Parliament Martin White (comedian) (fl. 2000s–2010s), English musician, comedian and animator Max Martin (born 1971), Swedish music producer and songwriter known for a time as Martin White Martin White (hurler) (1909–2011), Irish hurler Martin White (astronomer) , 2011 Guggenheim Fellowship recipient Martin White (director) (born 1939), pseudonym of

48-428: A Department of Sociology at the university. A lifelong philanthropist, each July and August for over 15 years he turned a farmhouse on the estate into a holiday camp for poor and disabled children from the slums of Dundee, enabling over 200 children a year to benefit from two weeks of clean air, healthy outdoor activities and good food. In 1892 he limited outdoor labourers on his estate to a 9-hour day, granting them also

72-548: A baronial castle at Balruddery , Angus , near the city of Dundee . He ran his family business from Dundee and New York, but took a back seat to pursue political and scientific interests. J Martin White studied engineering at Cassel in Germany and was very interested in the technological innovations of his time, becoming chairman of the Dundee Technical Institute. He was a keen photographer and had his own darkroom from

96-470: A by-election. Haldane-Duncan was appointed a Lord Commissioner of the Treasury , requiring a by-election. Haldane-Duncan succeeded to the peerage, becoming Earl of Camperdown, and causing a by-election. Carnegie resigned after being appointed Inspector of Constabulary for Scotland . Rigby is appointed Solicitor General for England and Wales , requiring a by-election. Rigby resigns after being appointed

120-544: A half-day on Saturdays and a week's annual holiday. In 1903 he instituted a pension scheme for all employees on the Balruddery Estate. Some of the many other organisations benefiting from his largesse included the Scottish Amateur Gymnastics Association, St Andrew's University, Dundee Medical School and Dundee Technical Institute. White developed a love of the pipe organ, becoming an expert on

144-664: A widow. J Martin White died suddenly at Balruddery in July 1928. He was buried locally, with a monument to his memory erected in Liff Parish Church. Forfar (UK Parliament constituency) Forfarshire was a Scottish county constituency represented in the House of Commons of Great Britain from 1708 until 1800, and then in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom until 1950. It elected one Member of Parliament (MP) using

168-687: The Commons was to be brief, however. Following weeks of rumours, the Dundee Advertiser reported on 14 November 1896 that he had resigned his seat. This was initially denied by his private secretary, who stated that he simply gone to India on business, and expected to return for the opening of parliament. However, on 20 November, the executive committee of the Forfarshire Liberal Association received an angry letter from White. In it, he stated that he had not intended to resign. However he felt

192-518: The Montrose District of Burghs . The county of Forfarshire was renamed Angus in 1928. However, no change was made in the name of the constituency prior to its abolition. The constituency elected one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first-past-the-post system until the seat was abolished for the 1950 general election . The constituency was abolished under the Representation of

216-637: The Second Boer War was in progress. The party decided not to contest the seat, allowing James Morrison , an army officer, invalided from the front in South Africa, to be returned unopposed. At the general election in October 1900 , White did contest Wilton, but Morrison held the seat with a majority of 841 votes (12.6% of the total). At the 1906 general election , he failed to be elected at Great Yarmouth . He lodged an election petition , attempting to have

240-583: The first-past-the-post voting system. The British parliamentary constituency was created in 1708 following the Acts of Union, 1707 and replaced the former Parliament of Scotland shire constituency of Forfarshire . The Representation of the People Act 1918 defined the constituency as consisting of the county of Forfar , except the county of the city of Dundee and the burghs of Montrose , Arbroath , Brechin , and Forfar . The four excepted burghs formed part of

264-527: The Italian film director Mario Bianchi Martin White (British Army officer) (born 1944) Martin White (Royal Navy officer) (1779–1865), Royal Navy admiral and hydrologist See also [ edit ] Minor White (Minor Martin White, 1908–1976), American photographer [REDACTED] Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles about people with the same name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change

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288-517: The People Act 1948 , which reorganised parliamentary boundaries throughout the United Kingdom . The seat was divided between North Angus and Mearns (which also included Kincardineshire ) and South Angus . Maule was elevated to the peerage, becoming 1st Baron Panmure and causing a by-election. Maule was appointed Surveyor-General of the Ordnance , requiring a by-election. Maule's death caused

312-472: The age of twelve and had had a longstanding affair. Ella Grant claimed that she had become pregnant and had refused the abortion that had been suggested by White. White made an out-of-cort settlement and the case never became public knowledge at the time. White was subsequently chosen as prospective Liberal candidate for the Wilton Division of Wiltshire . However, when a by-election occurred in July 1900,

336-455: The art of organ playing and organ building...All honor to Martin White! White was married twice. On 6 August 1898 he married Mary MacRae, a watercolourist, and they had two children. Due to his infidelity the marriage broke down in 1906, and the couple were divorced in 1912. Mary MacRae White went on to be a successful artist in the United States. In 1913 he married Alice (Priscilla) Frost,

360-676: The instrument, and president of the Organ Club . He financially supported Robert Hope-Jones in his development of the theatre organ . In the central hall at Balruddery he had installed an organ that, originally built by Casson and voiced by Thynne, had been reconstructed by Hope-Jones with electric action, double and pizzicato touches and some new stops. In 1913, George Laing Miller, in The Recent Revolution in Organ Building wrote: Mr White... has managed to devote much time and thought to

384-505: The late 1870s. In April 1881 he and his father, James F White, installed electricity at their house, Balruddery by Longforgan, outside Dundee. They generated the electricity with a Siemens SDJ Shuntwound 50-volt dynamo driven by a turbine on a stream on the estate and thus established probably the first domestic generating plant in Scotland and the second, after Cragside, in Britain. Martin White

408-480: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Martin_White&oldid=1050106820 " Category : Human name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Martin White (politician) White was born in New York City ,

432-402: The result overturned due to alleged bribery, treating and illegal payments by his Conservative opponent Arthur Fell . The election court found that treating and bribery had indeed taken place, but the two judges sitting on the case did not agree whether Fell was responsible for the actions of a Mr Baker who was found to have had acted illegally. The first judge, Justice Channell, held that Baker

456-519: The son of wealthy jute merchant James Farquhar White and his wife Elizabeth Grundy. White Sr. had, in 1849, established a 'dry goods' company, J F White & Co. in New York selling a variety of imported and domestic textiles. However, with the onset of the American Civil War he had returned home to Scotland and leased Castle Huntly , Perthshire as the family home. In 1880 they bought and moved to

480-644: The story had been inserted in the Advertiser by members of the committee, and this act of disloyalty meant that he no longer had any obligations to the party. Accordingly, he resigned his seat, by accepting appointment as Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds . The reason for the rumours circulating in Dundee and for his resignation were that a court case for breach of promise to marry had been brought by clergyman's daughter Helen Grant. She and White had known each other from

504-456: Was acting as an agent of Fell; but the more senior judge, Justice Grantham , held that Fell was not responsible, and the petition was therefore dismissed. However, the outcome was widely denounced as perverse, and was one of a series of election petition judgments in which Grantham (himself a former Conservative MP) was seen to have acted in a partisan manner. The judgment in the Yarmouth petition

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528-453: Was also a collector and connoisseur of Japanese art. By the 1890s White had become increasingly wealthy through the family business, J F White & Co. He first stood for Parliament at the 1892 general election , when he unsuccessfully contested St Andrews Burghs . When the Liberal member of parliament for Forfarshire , Sir John Rigby was appointed a Lord Justice of Appeal in 1894, it

552-541: Was expected that White would be the party's candidate at the ensuing by-election . However, a London-based stock-broker, Henry Robson was chosen, with the result that the seat was lost to the Liberal Unionists . A general election was held in the following year , and on this occasion White was chosen to contest the seat. He regained the seat comfortably for the Liberals, with a majority of 441 votes. His membership of

576-533: Was the subject of a debate in the Commons in July 1906 in which Grantham's partisanship was widely condemned. White developed a close friendship with Patrick Geddes , and endowed a chair of botany for him at University College Dundee . Geddes was developing the field of sociology , and White began generously funding the teaching of the subject at the University of London . He eventually provided an endowment to create

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