Person’s Profile
Mary Sophia Paulina Martyn (1843-1887)
Description
member of the Gosling Society
Biography
A Gosling as ‘Pena’, 1859-63, ‘Pena’ was her nickname in real life as well. She was the only child of the Rev. Thomas Waddon Martyn (1808-1846), Rector of Lifton and Vicar of Thorverton, and his wife Sophia (1815/6-1898), daughter of the Rev. Dr. James Coleridge (1789-1857) and his wife Sophia, daughter of Col. Stanhope Badcock. In the 1861 census she was living with this grandmother in Dawlish. She was a cousin of CMY’s, and also of Bishop Patteson's, and he seems to have made a pet of her before his departure for New Zealand, mentioning her in his letters. [Vivian, Visitations of Cornwall; 1851 census; PO Devon 1866; 1881 census with mother at Harleston, Cary Crescent, Torquay]
