It is thought that he was named Henry Martyn after the Anglican missionary to Persia and India.
The celebrated nineteenth century missionary Henry Martyn served in Lolworth as his first parish from 1803 to 1805, while he was a curate under Charles Simeon at Holy Trinity Church, Cambridge, before setting out for India and present-day Iran and Turkey.
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Henry Martyn-Clark (Peshawar, c.1857 - Edinburgh, April 1916) was an Afghan-born adopted British medical missionary stationed in Amritsar in the late 19th century.