Martin and Ebsworth families further papers, ca. 1782-1993

MLMSS 8377/Boxes 1-3
MLMSS 8377/Box 4X

fonds

ca. 1782-1993

Textual Records, Graphic Materials, Clippings, Drawings, Paintings, Photographs

153180

1.24 metres of textual material (3 boxes and 1 outsize box)

Lyster Waverley Ormsby Martin (1908-1999) was born in 1908 in Taree, New South Wales. He was the sixth of 7 sons and a daughter, including Sidney Gore Ormsby Martin (1903-1973) and Eric Walwyn Ormsby Martin (1900-1973). His father, Lewis Ormsby Martin, was a solicitor in Taree and Mr Martin donated his own and his father's personal and professional records to the State Library of New South Wales. L.W.O. Martin was educated at The King's School, Parramatta, and then studied chemistry at the University of Sydney. He became a lecturer at the Sydney Technical College, later the University of New South Wales.

He married Elaine Ebsworth in 1936 and had two sons, Garth and Hugh.

During World War II he studied mustard gas at the request of the army. This gas was not used, but Mr Martin participated in the production of nettle gas which was shipped to New Guinea.

Mr Martin became head of physical chemistry, and was instrumental in the design of the Chemistry School Building which included some very innovative features. He retired at 60, but was invited to return to lecture. He was widowed in 1984 and died in 1999.

Robert Maund Ormsby Martin (1909-1973) was born at Taree to Lewis Ormsby Martin and Lucy Danvers Maund. Like L.W.O. Martin, Robert attended The King's School, leaving at the end of 1926. Robert graduated from the University of Sydney Faculty of Arts with First Class Honours and the University Medal in the School of History in 1938.

Robert Maund studied Chinese under the University of Sydney extension program, and wrote a number of publications on China. He worked as a lecturer in History at New England University College (Armidale), and also worked in the Relief and Rehabilitation Administration of the United Nations.

James Edward Ebsworth, who came to Australia, ca. 1824 was an ancestor of Elaine Ebsworth. He was followed by other members of his family and they achieved some prominence in the wool trade. Charles Ebsworth married Frances Broughton (ca. 1905) whose ancestor, William Broughton was on the First Fleet.

Reference:
Lyster Waverley Ormsby Martin interviewed by Paul Brunton and Rosemary Block, 1991-1994 /State Library of New South Wales
Broughton, Ebsworth and Martin families - papers, 1862-1982 / State Library of New South Wales
Compiled from the collection

BOX 1
Folder 1
Papers and correspondence, being mainly letters to Elaine Ebsworth and Lyster W. O. Martin; including an 1880 letter to Mrs Buzacott; and certificate signed by Prime Minister Robert Menzies declaring L. W. O. Martin a citizen of Sydney, 1880-1993

Folder 2
Papers and correspondence concerning Robert Maund Ormsby Martin, including references and letters of recommendation, applications for teaching positions, resumes, etc., 1935-1971

Folder 3
Letters, papers, certificates, artworks, and school reports, for Garth, Hugh, and Elaine, 1926-1956

Folder 4
Papers, family trees, newspaper clippings, black and white photographs, wedding invitation, and letters, mainly to Elaine and Lyster, also to Lewis, 1915-1990

Folder 5
A Journal of the Voyage from Scotland to Van Diemans Land [by Thos. Ascott?], typescript, May 1823-March 1824; drawing book of Elaine Ebsworth, East Sydney Technical College, 1927

Folder 6
The Teaching of English in the Secondary School, by Rhys Jones; school exercise books of F. O. Ebsworth on mineralogy and botany, ca. 1899

BOX 2
Bound typescript 'A History of the Tonga Islands, from the earliest times to 1845 A.D.: a study in apparentation-and-affiliation and in challenge-and-response' by R. Ormsby Martin, ca. 1940

Minute book, possibly belonging to Lewis Ormsby Martin, with legal cases, statement of claims, declarations, etc., ca. 1935-1936

Folder 1
Exercise book and papers on mineralogy, ca. 1890s

Folder 2
New South Wales Railways Ambulance Handbook, inscribed 'F. O. Ebsworth', 1887; Mineralogy by Frank Rutley, inscribed 'F. O. Ebsworth ... 1898'; Exercise book of E. A. Mann 'Natural Philosophy Part II', 1894

Folder 3
Exercise book of E. Ebsworth, Ascham, 'Practical Botany'

BOX 3
Framed 'Ribbons of the Orders conferred by the Queens of Portugal and Spain upon Lieutenant Colonel Francis Crook Ebsworth in the Years 1833, 1834 and 1835'; Intermediate Certificate and Leaving Certificates awared to Lyster Waverley Ormsby Martin, 1925 and 1927; sketches and a print, ca. 1942; black and white photograph of 1000 Herford Bullocks crossing the Barwon River below the fisheries Brewarrina ... 25th February 1909

BOX 4X
Scrapbook in embroidered tapestry bag, given to Charles Ebsworth by Adeline Williams, containing original drawings and paintings, cameos, photographs, portraits, wax seals, clippings of printed pictures, and poetry, ca. 1782-1844

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