Robert Tighe

{{Short description|English cleric and linguist (1562–1620)}} {{about||the Irish writer|Robert Stearne Tighe}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} '''Robert Tighe''' (or '''Teigh''' or '''Tyghe''', sometimes misspelled '''Leigh''') (1562 – 31 August 1616) was an English cleric and linguist born in Deeping, Lincolnshire, in 1562.<ref name="KJV">{{cite web |title=King James Bible Translators |url=https://kingjamesbibletranslators.org/bios/Robert_Tighe|accessdate=6 June 2020}}</ref> He received his education from Trinity College, Cambridge<ref>{{acad|id=TH577R|name=Tyghe, Robert}}</ref> and Magdalen College, Oxford.<ref>{{alox1|title=Tighe, Robert}}</ref>

Tighe served as Vicar of Chiddingfold, Surrey (1596–1616),<ref name="KJV" /> Vicar of the Church of All Hallows in London (1598–1616),<ref>'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</ref> and Archdeacon of Middlesex (1602–1616).<ref>{{Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae |last=Horn |first=Joyce M. |period=1541–1857 |volume=1 |pages=10–12}}</ref> His son inherited a vast estate of £1000 per annum from him. He was among the "First Westminster Company" charged by James I of England with translating the first 12 books of the King James Version of the Bible.

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==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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