King James Bible Translators

• PATRON
  • King James I
• TRANSLATION OVERSEER
  • Richard Bancroft
• COMMITTEE OF TWO
  • Thomas Bilson
  • Miles Smith
• COMMITTEE OF REVISERS
  • John Bois [Boys/Boyes]
  • Andrew Downes
  • John Harmar [Harmer]
  • 'Hutch'
• FIRST WESTMINSTER COMPANY
  • Genesis - 2 Kings
  • Lancelot Andrewes (Director)
  • William Bedwell [Beadwell]
  • Francis Burley [Burleigh]
  • Richard Clerke [Clark/Clarke]
  • Geoffrey King [Kinge/Kynge]
  • John Layfield [Leifield/Laifield]
  • John Overall
  • Hadrian Saravia
  • Richard Thomson [Thompson]
  • Robert Tighe [Teigh/Tjghe/Tyghe/Leigh]
• FIRST CAMBRIDGE COMPANY
  • 1 Chronicles - Song of Solomon
  • Edward Lively (Director)
  • Roger Andrewes
  • Andrew Bing [Byng/Binge]
  • Laurence Chaderton [Chatterton]
  • Francis Dillingham
  • William Eyre [Eyres/Aiers]
  • Thomas Harrison
  • John Richardson
  • Robert Spaulding [Spaldinge/Spaulding]
• FIRST OXFORD COMPANY
  • Isaiah - Malachi
  • John Harding [Hardynge/Hardinge] (Director)
  • Richard Brett
  • Richard Fairclough
  • Daniel Featley
  • Thomas Holland
  • Richard Kilby [Kilbie/Kilbye/Kylby]
  • John Rainolds [Reynolds]
  • Miles Smith
  • William Thorne
• SECOND CAMBRIDGE COMPANY
  • Apocrypha
  • John Duport (Leader) [Duporte/Dewport/Dewporte]
  • John Bois [Boys/Boyes]
  • William Branthwaite [Branthwayte]
  • Andrew Downes
  • Jeremiah [Jeremy/Jeremie] Radcliffe
  • Robert Ward
  • Samuel Ward
• SECOND OXFORD COMPANY
  • Gospels, Acts & Book of Revelation
  • Thomas Ravis (Leader)
  • George Abbot
  • John Aglionby
  • Richard Edes [Eedes]
  • John Harmar [Harmer]
  • Leonard Hutten [Hutton]
  • James Montagu [Montegue]
  • John Peryn [Perrinne/Perne/Peryn]
  • Ralph Ravens
  • Henry Savile
  • Giles Tomson [Thomson]
• SECOND WESTMINSTER COMPANY
  • Epistles
  • William Barlow (Leader)
  • William Dakins [Dakyns]
  • Nicholas Felton
  • Roger Fenton
  • Ralph Hutchinson [Huchenson]
  • Arthur Lake
  • Nicholas Love
  • Michael Rabbett [Rabbet]
  • George Ryves
  • Thomas Sanderson
  • John Spenser [Spencer]
• TRANSLATOR
  • Thomas Sparke
• PRINTER
  • Robert Barker
• CONTRIBUTORS
  • (Illustrators, Geneologies, Maps, Etc.)
  • John Speed (Genealogies, Map)
  • Cornelis Boel (Artist/Engraver)
  • John More (Map)
  • Renold Elstrack (Engraver)
  • Hugh Broughton (Genealogies)

GENERAL BIOGRAPHICAL SOURCES

The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, (2004-11).

BIBLE: The Story of the King James Version 1611-2011, Gordon Campbell, Oxford University Press (2010).

The King James Bible: A Short History from Tyndale to Today, David Norton, Cambridge University Press, (2011).

Ancestry.com.

The King James Translators, Olga S. Opfell, McFarland & Company, In. (1982).

The Learned Men, Gusavus S. Paine, Thomas Y. Crowell Company (1959).

God’s Secretaries, Adam Nicholson, Harper Perennial (2005).

www.theclergydatabase.org.UK/.

Translating for King James, Ward Allen, Vanderbilt University Press, (1969).

The History of the Worthies of England, Thomas Fuller, The Folio Society, (1987).

Google Books.

Alumni Cantabridgienses, J. & J.A. Venn, Cambridge University Press (1922-1958).

Athenae Oxonienses, Anthony ’a Wood Clergy of England Database.

Alumni Oxonienses, 1500-1714, Oxford: Parker and Co. (1888-1892).