Francis Dillingham

Francis Dillingham (born in Dean, Bedfordshire, died 1625, Wildon, Bedfordshire) was an English Protestant scholar and cleric. He was a Fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge and was appointed to the "First Cambridge Company" charged by James I of England with the translation of parts of the Old Testament for the King James Version of the Bible. He was renowned for his mastery of the Greek language and authored several theological treatises, including a "Manual of the Christian Faith".

References

* 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 Marantha 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
* Wright, Stephen, [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/7649 ‘Dillingham, Francis (d. 1625)’] , "Oxford Dictionary of National Biography", Oxford University Press, 2004