LONDON.- The Vicar of St Martin-in-the-Fields,
the
Reverend Nicholas Holtam , has announced that the £36 million capital
campaign
for the Renewal of St Martin-in-the-Fields is complete thanks to a gift
of
£50,000 given by Schroders plc in memory of the late Lord Gordon
Richardson of
Duntisbourne. Gordon Richardson was Chairman of Schroders (1962 – 1973)
and
became Governor of the Bank of England in 1973. He was married to
Peggie, the
eldest daughter of the Revd Dick Sheppard, Vicar of St
Martin-in-the-Fields
(1914-27) who was responsible for making St Martin’s ‘The Church of the
Ever
Open Door’ which began St Martin ’s work with homeless people in the
Twentieth
Century.