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Richard Brett (1567–1637) was an English clergyman and academic. During the translation of the
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Richard Brett (1567–1637) was an English clergyman and academic. During the translation of the King James Version of the Bible
The King James Version (KJV), also the King James Bible (KJB) and the Authorized Version (AV), is an Early Modern English translation of the Christian Bible for the Church of England, which was commissioned in 1604 and published in 1611, b ...
, Brett served in the "First Oxford Company", responsible for the later books of the Old Testament
The Old Testament (OT) is the first division of the Christian biblical canon, which is based primarily upon the 24 books of the Hebrew Bible, or Tanakh, a collection of ancient religious Hebrew and occasionally Aramaic writings by the Isr ...
.
Life
From a family of Catholic recusant sympathisers, Richard was the son of Robert Brett, gent., of Whitestaunton Manor in Somerset. He was born inLondon
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. He attended Hart Hall, Oxford
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which he entered as a commoner in 1582. He was appointed Rector of Quainton, Buckinghamshire
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, in 1595. That same year, he was granted a Fellowship in Lincoln College under Richard Kilby, where he pursued his study of Latin
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, Greek
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, Aramaic
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, Arabic
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, Hebrew
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, and Ge'ez (Ethiopic) tongues. In 1597 he was admitted bachelor of divinity
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, and he proceeded in divinity in 1605.
He died in Quainton on 5 April 1637, aged 70, and is buried in the chancel of Quainton Church, which he served for 43 years. Over his grave a monument with his effigies and a Latin and English epitaph was erected by his widow. His will was proved in P.C.C. in June 1637. By his wife Alice, daughter of Richard Brown, sometime mayor of Oxford, he left four daughters, of whom Margaret married Calybute Downing in 1627.
Works
His scholarly publications were in Latin. *Two translations from Greek into Latin: **''Vitæ sanctorum Evangelistarum Johannis et Lucæ à Simeone Metaphraste concinnatæ'', Oxford, 1597. **''Agatharchidis et Memnonis historicorum quæ supersunt omnia'', Oxford, 1597. *''Iconum sacrarum Decas in quâ è subjectis typis compluscula sanæ doctrinæ capita eruuntur'' (Joseph Barnes, Oxford 1603).Full text (page images) a(open).
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 Maranatha Bible Society, 1984 ASIN B0006YJPI8 ) * Nicolson, Adam. (2003) ''God's Secretaries: The Making of the King James Bible.'' New York: HarperCollinsNotes
Further reading
* Stanley M. Burstein, "Richard Brett," in volume 1 of ''Dictionary of British Classicists,'' ed. Robert Todd et al. (Bristol: Thoemmes, 2004), pp. 104–05. ;Attribution {{DEFAULTSORT:Brett, Richard 1567 births 1637 deaths Alumni of Hertford College, Oxford Fellows of Lincoln College, Oxford Translators of the King James Version Anglican clergy from London 16th-century English translators 17th-century English translators 16th-century English clergy 17th-century English Anglican priests 17th-century Anglican theologians 16th-century Anglican theologians Greek–Latin translators