William Branthwaite
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William Branthwaite (1563–1619) was an English scholar and translator.
The son of John Branthwaite, William Branthwaite was baptised at St Peter Mancroft, Norwich on 13 June 1563.[1]
Branthwaite entered Clare Hall, Cambridge in 1579, graduating B.A. in 1582–3, M.A. in 1586 (from Emmanuel College, incorporated M.A. at Oxford in 1594), B.D. in 1593, D.D. in 1598.[1] He was a Fellow of the newly founded Emmanuel College 1585–1607,[1] under Laurence Chaderton. In 1607 he was appointed Master of Gonville and Caius College by royal mandate.[1][2] He was the first of eighteen members of his family at Caius.[2] Having an extensive knowledge of Hebrew, he served in the "Second Cambridge Company" charged by King James with translating the Apocrypha for the King James Version of the Bible. He died, whilst Vice-Chancellor, in January 1619.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d "Branthwaite, William (BRNT579W)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- ^ a b c Biographical history of Gonville and Caius college, 1349-1897: Vol. I, p. 196, Venn, Roberts and Gross (Cambridge 1897).
- Nicolson, Adam. (2003) God's Secretaries: The Making of the King James Bible. New York: HarperCollins ISBN 0-06-095975-4
- 1563 births
- 1619 deaths
- Alumni of Clare College, Cambridge
- Fellows of Emmanuel College, Cambridge
- Masters of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge
- Vice-chancellors of the University of Cambridge
- Translators of the King James Version
- 16th-century English translators
- 17th-century English translators
- British translator stubs
- English writer stubs
- Bible translator stubs