Robert Tighe

Robert Tighe (or Teigh or Tyghe, sometimes misspelled Leigh), Deeping, Lincolnshire, (1562[1]-1620) was an English cleric and linguist.

He was educated at both Oxford[2] and Cambridge[3] and served as Archdeacon of Middlesex (1602–1616)[4] and Vicar of the Church of All Hallows, Barking, London.[5] He left his son an unusually large estate of £1000 per annum. He was among the "First Westminster Company" charged by James I of England with the translation of the first 12 books of the King James Version of the Bible.

References
  1. "King James Bible Translators". Retrieved 6 June 2020.
  2. British History On-line
  3. Alumni Cantabrigienses|Alumni Cantabrigienses: A Biographical List of All Known Students, Graduates and Holders of Office at the University of Cambridge, from the Earliest Times to 1900, Venn, J/Venn, J Part II. 1752–1900 Vol. iv. Saal – Zuinglius, p287 Cambridge University Press (1927)
  4. Horn, Joyce M. (1969), Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1541–1857, vol. 1, pp. 10–12
  5. '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

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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