Henry Martyn Scudder, born in Pandatharippu which is from the northern province of Sri Lanka, was a missionary until 1857 before his health failed in 1864.
He was born at Panditeripo, Ceylon, on 5 February 1822. Pandatharippu or Pandaththarippu or Pandaththeruppu (Tamil: ) is a village in the northern Jaffna District of Sri Lanka. Northern In 1864, his health failing in the climate of India, he returned to America, and he became a pastor of a church in San Francisco. Henry joined his father as a missionary at Madras in 1844. After being a missionary under ABCM until 1857, he served as a missionary under the Board of Foreign Missions of the Reformed Church in America after 1857. The following year he was sent as an ABCFM missionary to Madura, India, where he labored from 1844 to 1846, and in 1846 to Madras, where he labored until 1850. 
