Jeremiah Radcliffe (died 1612) was an

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priest, scholar and translator. Radcliffe was educated at

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and

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. He became a Fellow of Trinity in 1572. He served as Vicar of Evesham from 1588 and Rector of Orwell, Cambridgeshire from 1590. From 1597 to 1611 he was Vice-Master of Trinity College. He also served in the "Second Cambridge Company" charged by

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with translating the

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for the King James Version of the Bible.

References

* Nicolson, Adam. (2003) ''God's Secretaries: The Making of the King James Bible.'' New York: HarperCollins Fellows of Trinity College, Cambridge Year of birth missing 16th-century births 1612 deaths 16th-century translators 17th-century translators Translators of the King James Version 16th-century English Anglican priests 17th-century English clergy

Jeremiah Jeremiah, Modern: , Tiberian: ; el, Ἰερεμίας, Ieremíās; meaning " Yah shall raise" (c. 650 – c. 570 BC), also called Jeremias or the "weeping prophet", was one of the major prophets of the Hebrew Bible. According to Jewi ...

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