Dr. C.P. Martin, born in Dublin, Ireland, served as a young man in the Royal Irish Constabulary and, in World War I, as an officer in the Royal Irish Regiment. He received a degree in medicine from Trinity College in Dublin in 1928. He soon after joined the staff of Trinity College as a teacher of Anatomy, Embryology, and Physical Anthropology. In 1936 he came to McGill as Robert Reford Professor of Anatomy and Chairman of the Department, posts which he occupied for twenty-one years (cf. Edward H. Bensley, in McGill medical luminaries: Osler Library studies in the history of medicine, no. 1 (Montreal: Osler Library, 1990) 151-152).
From the description of Cecil Percy Martin fonds : P086. [ca. 1967-1968]. (McGill University Library - Humanities and Social Sciences Library). WorldCat record id: 713080562
