Personal details
Full Name:
- William Martin
Lifetime:
- 1807?–18 Nov 1880
Biography
Appointed New Zealand's first chief justice, William Martin, persided over the murder trial of Maketū Wharetōtara, a Bay of Islands Māori charged with murdering the granddaughter of a leading Ngāpuhi chief, two European adults and a European child.
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Main image: William Martin
Lithograph portrait of William Martin by J. Carpenter, about 1842.