Geoffrey King (theologian)
- Geoffrey King (theologian)
Geoffrey King (sometimes spelled Geoffry) was an English protestant theologian, a Fellow and Regius Professor of Hebrew at King's College, Cambridge. 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
* 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
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