Translators of the King James Version of the Bible

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Revision as of 05:43, 31 January 2013

The Translators of the King James Version of the bible (1604–1611).

Contents 1 First Westminster Company 1.1 Genesis to 2 Kings 2 First Cambridge Company 2.1 1 Chronicles to Song of Solomon 3 First Oxford Company 3.1 Isaiah to Malachi 4 Second Cambridge Company 4.1 The Apocrypha 5 Second Oxford Company 5.1 Matthew to Acts and Revelation 6 Second Westminster Company 6.1 Romans to Jude 7 Others

First Westminster Company

Genesis to 2 Kings

• Lancelot Andrewes (head) — Cambridge University
• William Bedwell — from Cambridge
• Francis Burleigh
• Richard Clarke — Cambridge University
• Geoffrey King — Cambridge University
• John Layfield — Cambridge University
• John Overall — Cambridge University
• Hadrian à Saravia
• Richard Thompson — Cambridge University
• Robert Teigh — Cambridge University

First Cambridge Company

1 Chronicles to Song of Solomon

• Roger Andrewes — Cambridge University
• Andrew Bing — Cambridge University
• Laurence Chaderton — Cambridge University
• Francis Dillingham — Cambridge University
• Thomas Harrison — Cambridge University
• Edward Lively (head) — Cambridge University
• John Richardson — Cambridge University
• Robert Spalding — Cambridge University

First Oxford Company

Isaiah to Malachi

• Richard Brett
• Richard Fairclough
• John Harding (head)
• Thomas Holland
• Richard Kilby
• John Reynolds
• Miles Smith (final editor)

Second Cambridge Company

The Apocrypha

• John Bois — Cambridgeshire
• William Branthwaite — Cambridge University
• Andrew Downes — Cambridge University
• John Duport (head) — Cambridge University
• Jeremiah Radcliffe — Cambridgeshire
• Robert Ward — Cambridge University
• Samuel Ward — Cambridge University

Second Oxford Company

Matthew to Acts and Revelation

• George Abbot
• John Aglionby
• Richard Eedes
• John Harmer
• Leonard Hutten
• James Montague
• John Perin
• Ralph Ravens
• Thomas Ravis (head)
• Sir Henry Savile
• Giles Thomson

Second Westminster Company

Romans to Jude

• William Barlow (head) — Cambridge University
• Thomas Bilson (final editor)
• William Dakins — Cambridge University
• Roger Fenton — Cambridge University
• Ralph Hutchinson
• Michael Rabbet
• Thomas Sanderson
• John Spencer
• Seventh Company, London
• Richard Bancroft (overseer)

Others

• George Ryves (overseer of the New Testament)
• William Thorne (member of First Oxford Company)
• Daniel Featley (member of First Oxford Company)
• William Eyre — Cambridge University (member of Second Cambridge Company)