Robert Ward (scholar)

Robert Ward (scholar)

Robert Ward was an English scholar, a fellow of King's College, Cambridge and prebendary of Chichester Cathedral. He served in the "Second Cambridge Company" charged by James I of England with translating the Apocrypha 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 ISBN 0-06-095975-4


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