Henry John Martin (1830-1903) was Archdeacon of LindisfarneNorthumberland County Archives Service from 1882"The Clergy List, Clerical Guide and Ecclesiastical Directory" London, Hamilton & Co 1889 until his death.Obituary The Times (London, England), Thursday, Dec 24, 1903; pg. 7; Issue 37272.
Martin was born in South Devon and educated King's College School and Trinity College, Cambridge.‘UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE’ The Standard (London, England), Saturday, April 26, 1862; pg. 3; Issue 11764 He was ordained by the Bishop of Oxford‘ECCLESIASTICAL INTELLIGENCE’ The Morning Post (London, England), Tuesday, June 05, 1855; pg. 5; Issue 25405 in 1855 and began his ecclesiastical career with curacies in Shirburn‘Church’ The Lancaster Gazette, and General Advertiser for Lancashire, Westmorland, Yorkshire, &c. (Lancaster, England), Saturday, September 13, 1856; pg. 3; Issue 3623 and Exeter. After this he was association secretary of the Church Missionary Society from 1862 to 1866 when he became Vicar of West Hartlepool.‘LOCAL AND GENERAL’. The Leeds Mercury (Leeds, England), Monday, January 22, 1866; Issue 8666 In 1871 he became Vicar of Newcastle-upon-Tyne‘RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE’ The Bury and Norwich Post, and Suffolk Herald (Bury Saint Edmunds, England), Tuesday, October 24, 1871; pg. 3; Issue 4661 where he stayed for eleven years until his Archdeacon’s appointment.Ecclesiastical Appointments.-Rev. Henry John Martin The Times (London, England), Thursday, Sep 21, 1882; pg. 6; Issue 30618
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