Life and career
Martin was born on 8 April 1963 in Kingston-upon-Thames. She attended Woking Girls' Grammar School, before studying at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, where she received her BA in 1986. [1] She obtained a PhD in the Faculty of English at Cambridge in 1993, with a doctoral thesis titled "Izaak Walton and his precursors: a literary study of the emergence of the ecclesiastical Life". [2] She was a postdoctoral fellow at Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge between 1994 and 1998, and was College Lecturer in English and a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge from 1999 to 2010. [1] [3]
She was ordained in 2004, serving as a priest alongside her work as a lecturer, until in 2010 she became the vicar of Hinxton, Duxford and Ickleton in South Cambridgeshire, close to the Essex border. She also served on the Bishop of Ely's senior staff, contributing to the Church of England's reflections on sexuality, and became a canon of Ely Cathedral in 2016, with special responsibility for learning. [1] [4]
After her appointment as Dean of Chelmsford was announced on 28 June 2024, she was installed as Dean on 5 January 2025. [5]
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