Early Life
Martyn was the eldest son of John Martyn of Tullira and Annie Mary Josephine Smyth of Masonbrook, Loughrea, both in County Galway. He succeeded his father upon John's death in 1860. He was educated at Belvedere College, Dublin, and Beaumount Jesuit school, London, after which he entered Christ Church College, Oxford, in 1877. He left without taking a degree in 1879.
His only sibling, John, died in 1883.
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