# Martin Bond

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'''Martin Bond''' (c. 1558 – May 1643) was an English soldier, merchant adventurer and politician who sat in the [House of Commons](/source/House_of_Commons_of_England) from 1624 to 1625.

Bond was the son of William Bond, sheriff and alderman of London. In 1588 he was Captain at the camp at [Tilbury](/source/West_Tilbury) which was prepared to repel the [Spanish Armada](/source/Spanish_Armada), and remained chief captain of the [London Trained Bands](/source/London_Trained_Bands) until his death. He was a Merchant Adventurer and a freeman of the [Worshipful Company of Haberdashers](/source/Worshipful_Company_of_Haberdashers).<ref name= Monument>[http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=98362   'St. Helen's Bishopsgate: Monuments within the church', Survey of London: volume 9: The parish of St Helen, Bishopsgate, part I (1924), pp. 52-79. Date accessed: 15 July 2011]</ref>

Bond was Auditor from 1609 to 1611 and became president of the [Honourable Artillery Company](/source/Honourable_Artillery_Company) in 1616. He was treasurer of St. Bartholomew's Hospital from 1620 to his death and auditor again from 1623 to 1625.<ref name=Alder>[http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=67223   'Aldermen in Parliament', The Aldermen of the City of London: Temp. Henry III - 1912 (1908), pp. 261-297. Date accessed: 15 July 2011]</ref>

In 1624, Bond was elected [Member of Parliament](/source/Member_of_Parliament) for [City of London](/source/City_of_London_(UK_Parliament_constituency)). He was re-elected MP for the City of London in 1625.<ref name=Willis>{{Cite Notitia Parliamentaria|converted=1|part=2|pages=229–239}}</ref>

Bond died at the age of 85 and was commemorated by a memorial in the church of [St Helen Bishopsgate](/source/St_Helen_Bishopsgate).<ref name=Monument/>

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| before2= [Robert Heath](/source/Robert_Heath) 
| before3= [Robert Bateman](/source/Robert_Bateman_(MP))   
| before4= [Sir Thomas Lowe](/source/Thomas_Lowe_(Lord_Mayor))
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| with2= [Heneage Finch](/source/Heneage_Finch_(speaker)) 
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