Jeremiah Radcliffe

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Jeremiah Radcliffe (died 1612) was an English priest and scholar.

(died 1620) was an English scholar and translator.

Radcliffe was a fellow and Vice-Master of Trinity College, Cambridge. He served as Vicar of Evesham from 1588 and Rector of Orwell, Cambridgeshire from 1590. He also served in the "Second Cambridge Company" charged by James I of England with translating the Apocrypha for the King James Version of the Bible.

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  • 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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