Dakins (other)
Dakins may refer to: *William Dakins (?–1607), English academic and clergyman, Gresham Professor of Divinity and one of the translators of the King James Bible *, a British frigate commissioned in the Royal Navy in 1943 and scrapped in 1947 See also *Dakin (other) Dakin may refer to: ;People * Dakin (surname) *Dakin of Sennar (1568–1585/6), Sudanese ruler of the Kingdom of Sennar ;Places * Dakin, a locality in Athabasca County, Alberta, Canada *Dakin Island, Western Australia; see List of islands in the ...

William Dakins
William Dakins (died 1607) was an English academic and clergyman, Gresham Professor of Divinity and one of the translators of the '' King James Bible''. Life He is conjectured (Thompson Cooper in the '' Dictionary of National Biography'') to have been the son of William Dakins, M.A., vicar of Ashwell, Hertfordshire. He was educated at Westminster School, whence he was elected in 1586 to a scholarship at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he proceeded B.A. in 1591. He became a minor fellow of Trinity on 3 October 1593, and a major fellow on 16 March 1594. In 1594 he commenced M.A., and in 1601 proceeded B.D. He became Greek lecturer of his college (an annual office) on 2 October 1602, and vicar of Trumpington, Cambridgeshire, in 1603. On the resignation of Hugo Gray he was chosen to succeed him as professor of divinity in Gresham College, London, on 14 July 1604. He was recommended by the vice-chancellor and several heads of colleges in Cambridge, but also by some of the nobility ...
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