Henry Martyn in a window in All Saints’, Cambridge
Mark Charter
Henry Martyn was born in 1781 in Truro in Cornwall, where he went to school, and won a
scholarship to read mathematics at St John’s College, Cambridge,
where he became a Fellow before starting his missionary work, in the course of which he died
in 1812. He is commemorated in windows
in the baptistry
and nave
of Truro Cathedral.
All Saints’, Cambridge, n4
The window is in memory of three former vicars of All Saints’.
Its subject is “Three great Cambridge Christians.”:4
George Herbert, who stands for quiet parish work and the Cambridge School of Poetry.
Bishop Brooke Westcott, who stands for Cambridge Scholarship and zeal for social righteousness.
Henry Martyn, who stands for the missionary spirit of Cambridge Churchmen, and the ideals
of the Student Movement, which had lately honoured his memory.
The cost of the window was estimated to be £2755 and the donor,
who was anonymous at the time,
was Miss Frances Matthew of 7 Park Terrace, Cambridge, who belonged to the family that owned a large grocer’s shop at
19–21 Trinity Street in Cambridge3,
now the site of Heffers bookshop.
References
PNH Collins (ed) The Corpus of Kempe Stained Glass in the United Kingdom and Ireland.
Crosby, 2000, p. 21 (Ref CAM 2.1).