Career
Martha Winter was the last child, born in Stourbridge, in 1743 to Henry and Jane Winter. She had nine siblings although only five survived childhood. By the age of 24 she was the head of a Quaker boarding school in Nottingham after starting to teach there when she was seventeen.
In 1794 she went on a tour of America preaching the gospel with John Wigham from Scotland.
She was there for over three years and she traveled about 11,000 miles. She returned again in 1801.
Routh died in Spitalfields in 1817.
