Martin, Gregory (died 1582)

English biblical translator. He organized the English College at Rome (1577), and then moved with the Douai College to Reims, where he remained for the rest of his life. He translated the Bible into English from the Latin Vulgate, the first edition appearing at Reims.

He was born in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire. He became a tutor in the household of Thomas Howard, Duke of Norfolk, but on the Duke's imprisonment for Catholicism, Martin escaped to Douai. Martin's translation was reprinted at Antwerp (1660), revised by Bishop Challoner (1749-50), and reprinted by George Leo Haydock (1812), and Frederick Charles Husenbeth (1850).