Robert Spaulding was an English scholar, Fellow of

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and one of the translators, in the "First Cambridge Company", of the

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. The company translated from

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to the Song of Solomon. He succeeded Edward Lively as Regius Professor of Hebrew at Cambridge.

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Regius Professors of Hebrew (Cambridge) Fellows of St John's College, Cambridge Translators of the King James Version Year of birth missing Year of death missing {{Hebrew-lang-stub