Editing George Martin (section)

==Personal life==
In 1946, Martin met Jean ("Sheena") Chisholm, a fellow member of the Royal Navy's choir. They bonded over their mutual love of music.{{sfn|Womack|2017|p=16}} Martin's mother, Bertha, strongly disapproved of Chisholm as a partner for Martin, causing early strain in the relationship.{{sfn|Womack|2017|p=20}} Against Bertha's wishes, Martin and Chisholm married at the [[University of Aberdeen]] on 3 January 1948.{{sfn|Womack|2017|p=21}} Bertha died three weeks later of a brain haemorrhage, and Martin felt responsible for his mother's death.{{sfn|Womack|2017|p=21}} They had two children, Alexis (born 1953){{sfn|Womack|2017|p=37}} and [[Gregory Paul Martin]] (born 1957). Around 1955, the Martins moved from London and bought a home in the [[New towns in the United Kingdom|development town]] of [[Hatfield, Hertfordshire]] some 20 miles north.{{sfn|Womack|2017|p=37}} By the early 1960s, Martin sought divorce, but Chisholm refused, citing her childcare needs.{{sfn|Womack|2017|p=75}} By this time, Martin had also moved out of Hatfield and rented a small flat in central London, which he shared with his widowed father for a time.{{sfn|Womack|2017|p=76}} Their divorce was finalized in February 1965.{{sfn|Womack|2017|p=255}}

Martin met Judy Lockhart Smith on his first day of work at EMI Studios in 1950, when she served as secretary to Parlophone director Oscar Preuss.{{sfn|Womack|2017|p=25}} Martin chose to retain her as a secretary when he assumed the direction of Parlophone in 1955, and they commuted together from Hatfield each day.{{sfn|Womack|2017|p=43}} Martin and Lockhart Smith began a discreet affair in the late 1950s.{{sfn|Womack|2017|p=75}} They married on 24 June 1966 at the [[Marylebone Town Hall|Marylebone Registry Office]].{{sfn|Womack|2018|p=107}} They had two children, Lucie (born 1967) and [[Giles Martin]] (born 1969).

In the mid-1970s, Martin's hearing started to decline;<ref name="Yahoo 2018">{{cite news |last1=Yahoo Music |title=Giles Martin on father George Martin's hearing loss: 'I became his ears when I was quite young' |url=https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/giles-martin-father-george-martins-hearing-loss-became-ears-quite-young-193540603.html |access-date=24 July 2024 |work=Y! Entertainment |date=2 August 2018 |ref=Yahoo 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231117091404/https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/giles-martin-father-george-martins-hearing-loss-became-ears-quite-young-193540603.html |archive-date=17 November 2023}}</ref> in an interview with the Institute of Professional Sound, he stated that he first noticed it when realizing that he couldn't detect high frequencies that an engineer was using to evaluate tonality.<ref name="Dimond 2014">{{cite web |last1=Dimond |first1=Dawn |title=George Martin – "In My Life" |url=https://ips.org.uk/2014/03/george-martin-in-my-life/ |website=Institute of Professional Sound |access-date=24 July 2024 |ref=Dimond 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240520130324/https://ips.org.uk/2014/03/george-martin-in-my-life/ |archive-date=20 May 2024 |date=10 March 2014 |url-status=live}}</ref> Giles consequently served as an impromptu assistant and helped George hide the condition as it worsened over the next two decades.<ref name="Yahoo 2018"></ref> Martin attributed his hearing loss to his constant production work, stating that "I was in the studio for 14 hours at a stretch, and never let my ears repair. There's no question that listening to loud music was a major contribution to my hearing loss."<ref name="Dimond 2014"></ref> By 2014, he relied on a combination of hearing aids and lip-reading to communicate face-to-face.<ref name="Dimond 2014"></ref>

Martin spent his later years with Lockhart Smith at their home in [[Coleshill, Oxfordshire]].{{sfn|Womack|2018|p=481}}