| Bridget Martyn | |
| Birth Date: | 4 August 1935 |
| Birth Place: | Cairo, Egypt |
| Death Date: | 17 April 2020 |
| Death Place: | Oxford, England |
| Other Names: | Bridget Hadaway |
| Children: | Nicholas, Sophie, and Harry Hadaway |
| Nationality: | British |
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.[1]
She authored The Bible for Children with Jean Atcheson, first published in 1973 which had a foreword by the Archbishop of Canterbury.[2] [3] In 1978 she published Fairy Tales which included retellings of classic fairy tales.[4]
Martyn was born in Cairo, Egypt. She went to Edinburgh University and graduated with a degree in French and German.[5] She married Robert Hadaway in 1967. They raised three children and later divorced.