Martha Trinder

Martha Trinder (d. 1790) operated a successful boarding school for the daughters of nonconformist families in Northampton and the greater London area from 1765 to 1789, much of that time in connection with the male boarding school operated by John Collett Ryland during his tenure as pastor at College Lane, 1759-85. In 1768 she married Thomas Trinder (1740-94), a former usher in Ryland’s academy. Frances Ryland was correct in her fears about Martha Trinder’s health; she would die a short time later, in January 1790. Thomas Trinder died in 1794, leaving £500 to the church at Northampton to be distributed among the poor.  For more on Martha Trinder’s school and some of her pupils, see ‘John Ryland at School:  Two Societies in Northampton Boarding Schools’, Baptist Quarterly 40 (2003), 90-116. For Thomas Trinder, see Baptist Annual Register, vol. 2, 286-303; College Street Church Book, 1781-1803, Northamptonshire Record Office, fols. 43, 190.