Martin, Kingsley (1897–1969)

English journalist. He succeeded Clifford Sharp as editor of the weekly New Statesman in 1931, and held the post until 1967. Under his control, the magazine's circulation rose from 15,000 in 1931 to 95,000 in 1945.

He was born in Mill Hill, London, and educated at Magdalene College, Cambridge. He joined the weekly New Statesman largely as a result of the urgings of Beatrice and Sidney Webb, who had known him as a teacher at the London School of Economics 1923–27. Although he had written editorials for the Manchester Guardian 1927–31, he had not felt free to express himself as a polemicist until he joined the New Statesman. He also wrote several polemical books.