Roger Andrewes (sometimes Andrews; 1574–1635) was an English churchman and academic,
archdeacon
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and Chancellor at
Chichester Cathedral in the
English Church. He was also a scholar, a Fellow of
Pembroke Hall and was, in 1618, made
Master of
Jesus College, Cambridge
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.
He was the younger brother of the scholar and cleric
Lancelot Andrewes and, like his brother, served as a translator for the
King James Version of the Bible
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He was the incumbent of many church parishes during his life, including
Cocking in West Sussex from September 1606 to July 1609.
References
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
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BiographyClerical career
1574 births
1635 deaths
Translators of the King James Version
Fellows of Jesus College, Cambridge
Masters of Jesus College, Cambridge
Fellows of Pembroke College, Cambridge
Archdeacons of Chichester
16th-century English Anglican priests
17th-century English Anglican priests
Alumni of Pembroke College, Cambridge
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