Robert Tighe

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For the Irish writer, see Robert Stearne Tighe.

Robert Tighe (or Teigh or Tyghe, sometimes misspelled Leigh) (1562 – 31 August 1616) was an English cleric and linguist born in Deeping, Lincolnshire, in 1562.[1] He received his education from Trinity College, Cambridge[2] and Magdalen College, Oxford.[3]

Tighe served as Vicar of Chiddingfold, Surrey (1596–1616),[1] Vicar of the Church of All Hallows in London (1598–1616),[4] and Archdeacon of Middlesex (1602–1616).[5] His son inherited a vast estate of £1000 per annum from him. He was among the "First Westminster Company" charged by James I of England with translating the first 12 books of the King James Version of the Bible.

References

  1. ^ a b "King James Bible Translators". Retrieved 6 June 2020.
  2. ^ "Tyghe, Robert (TH577R)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  3. ^ Foster, Joseph (1891). "Tighe, Robert" . Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1500–1714. Oxford: James Parker – via Wikisource.
  4. ^ 'The Parish of All Hallows, Barking' Redstone, L.J and members of the London Survey Committee] Appenxix II London; Published for the London County Council by B. T. Batsford 1929-1934
  5. ^ Horn, Joyce M. (1969), Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1541–1857, vol. 1, pp. 10–12

Bibliography

  • 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 Maranatha 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



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