Robert Tighe

Robert Tighe (or Teigh or Tyghe, sometimes misspelled Leigh) (1562 – 31 August 1616) was an English cleric and linguist.

Tighe was born in Deeping, Lincolnshire in 1562.^[1] He was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge^[2] and Magdalen College, Oxford.^[3]

He served as Vicar of Chiddingfold, Surrey (1596–1616),^[1] Vicar of the Church of All Hallows in London (1598–1616),^[4] and Archdeacon of Middlesex (1602–1616).^[5] He left his son an unusually large estate of £1000 per annum. 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

1. "King James Bible Translators". Retrieved 6 June 2020.
2. "Tyghe, Robert (TH577R)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
3. Foster, Joseph (1888–1892). "Tighe, Robert" . Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1500–1714. Oxford: Parker and Co – via Wikisource.
4. 'The Parish of All Hallows, Barking' Redstone, L.J and members of the London Survey Committee] Appenxix II London; Published for the London County Council by B. T. Batsford 1929-1934
5. Horn, Joyce M. (1969), Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1541–1857, vol. 1, pp. 10–12

Bibliography

• 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 Maranatha 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