Robert Tighe
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'''Robert Tighe''' (or '''Teigh''' or '''Tjghe''', sometimes misspelled '''Leigh'''), (born in [[The Deepings|Deeping]], [[Lincolnshire]], died [[1620 AD|1620]]) was an [[England|English]] cleric and linguist. He was educated at both [[Oxford University|Oxford]] and [[Cambridge University|Cambridge]] and served as [[Archdeacon of Middlesex]] and Vicar of the Church of All Hallows Barking, [[London]]. He left his son an unusually large estate of £1000 per annum. He was among the "First Westminster Company" charged by [[James I of England]] with the translation of the first 12 books of the [[King James Version]] of the Bible. | '''Robert Tighe''' (or '''Teigh''' or '''Tjghe''', sometimes misspelled '''Leigh'''), (born in [[The Deepings|Deeping]], [[Lincolnshire]], died [[1620 AD|1620]]) was an [[England|English]] cleric and linguist. He was educated at both [[Oxford University|Oxford]] and [[Cambridge University|Cambridge]] and served as [[Archdeacon of Middlesex]] and Vicar of the Church of All Hallows Barking, [[London]]. He left his son an unusually large estate of £1000 per annum. He was among the "First Westminster Company" charged by [[James I of England]] with the translation of the first 12 books of the [[King James Version]] of the Bible. | ||
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Robert Tighe (or Teigh or Tjghe, sometimes misspelled Leigh), (born in Deeping, Lincolnshire, died 1620) was an English cleric and linguist. He was educated at both Oxford and Cambridge and served as Archdeacon of Middlesex and Vicar of the Church of All Hallows Barking, London. He left his son an unusually large estate of £1000 per annum. He was among the "First Westminster Company" charged by James I of England with the translation of the first 12 books of the King James Version of the Bible.
References
- McClure, Alexander. (1858) The Translators Revived: A Biographical Memoir of the Authors of the English Version of the Holy Bible. Mobile, Alabama: R. E. Publications (republished by the Marantha Bible Society, 1984 ASIN B0006YJPI8 )
- Nicolson, Adam. (2003) God's Secretaries: The Making of the King James Bible. New York: HarperCollins ISBN 0-06-095975-4
