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Edward William Martin, the son of Edward Martin and Sarah Anne Hewitt (1863–1946), was born on November 2, 1891, in Inverarnan, Scotland. His family moved to Delaware when he was a child, and he attended Wilmington High School and the University of Delaware, from which he received his B.S. in 1916. He developed an interest in architecture, taking several architecture classes at the University of Pennsylvania and eventually attending the University of Liverpool in England, receiving a Bachelor of Architecture with First Class Honours in Design in 1922. He was also a member of Sigma Phi Epsilon, Phi Kappa Phi, and Tau Sigma Delta (which was an honors architecture fraternity).

In 1921, Martin was awarded a Honan Traveling Scholarship by the Liverpool Architectural Society which enabled a summer study trip to the Continent. His trip to Paris in 1921 was followed by a second tour in the summer of 1922 to various cities around Italy, including Genoa, Rome, Florence, Venice, and Verona. During these trips he made a careful study of the architecture in these regions, and produced a large number of sketches and watercolors. Martin was one of nine finalists for the coveted Rome Scholarship in Architecture in 1922, which would have afforded three years of study at the British School at Rome for three years. Martin’s design for the preliminary competition, shown on p. 296 of The Architect’s Journal (Folder 1-C), was critiqued as “an imaginative work set forth with … much grace.”

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