Bridget Martyn
British code breaker and encyclopedist
About Bridget Martyn
Lived 1935 – 2020 (aged 84). Bridget Martyn was a British encyclopedist.
Bridget Martyn (August 4, 1935 – 2020) was an encyclopedist, the senior editorial manager of Oxford University Press's Oxford Illustrated Encyclopaedia in 1993 and editor-in-chief of Microsoft Encarta from 1993 through 1995.
She authored The Bible for Children with Jean Atcheson, first published in 1973 which had a foreword by the Archbishop of Canterbury. In 1978 she published Fairy Tales which included retellings of classic fairy tales.
Martyn was born in Cairo, Egypt. She married Robert Hadaway in 1967. They raised three children and later divorced.
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British code breaker and encyclopedist
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Bridget Martyn was born on 4 August 1935 in Cairo, Egypt.
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Bridget Martyn died on 17 April 2020.
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Bridget Martyn was an encyclopedist.
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