John Duport

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John Duport (died 1617) was an English scholar and translator.

Dr John Duport was born in Shepshed in Leicestershire. He was educated at Jesus College, Cambridge, where he became a Fellow in 1674.^[1] In 1583 he became rector of Fulham, and in 1585 precentor of St Paul's Cathedral. In 1590 he was appointed Master of Jesus College.^[1] He served as Director of the "Second Cambridge Company" charged by James I of England with translating parts the Apocrypha for the King James Version of the Bible.^[2] In 1609 he added the prebendary of Ely to his income.

Duport married Rachel Cox, daughter of Richard Cox, Bishop of Ely.^[1] Their son, James Duport, a child when John Duport died, also became a scholar, and Master of Magdalene College.^[2]

References

↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Duport, John (DPRT564J)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
↑ 2.0 2.1 Adam Nicolson. (2003) God's Secretaries: The Making of the King James Bible. New York: HarperCollins ISBN 0-06-095975-4

Academic offices
Preceded by John Bell	Master of Jesus College, Cambridge 1590–1618	Succeeded by Roger Andrewes

Persondata
Name	Duport, John
Alternative names
Short description	English scholar and translator
Date of birth
Place of birth	Shepshed
Date of death	1617
Place of death

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