John Aglionby (divine)
John Aglionby (1566 – 6 February 1610) was an English clergyman and academic who was one of the translators of the King James Version of the Bible.
Early life and education
Aglionby was born in
Career and death
Between 1599 and 1600, Aglionby travelled abroad and was reported to have met Cardinal Robert Bellarmine.[4] On his return he was made chaplain to Elizabeth I, in which capacity he would also serve James I.[1] He became principal of St Edmund Hall, Oxford, on 4 April 1601.[5] Also in 1601 he became rector of Bletchingdon in Oxfordshire.[3]
In 1604, Aglionby was appointed to the Second Oxford Company of bible translators, who were tasked with working on the
Family
He left behind a widow, Katherine (née Foxcroft), and four children: George, John, Thomas and Katherine. Of these, George Aglionby would later become master of Westminster School and Dean of Canterbury.[1] He was an ancestor of the miser Margery Jackson of Carlisle.[6]: 6, 7
References
- ^ a b c d Mays, Kenneth R.; Lambert, Richard. "John Aglionby". King James Bible Translators.
- ^ Rose, Hugh James (1857). "Aglionby, John". A New General Biographical Dictionary. Vol. 1 AA–ANS. London: B. Fellowes et al. p. 151.
- ^ a b Foster, Joseph, ed. (1891). Alumni Oxonienses 1500–1714. University of Oxford. pp. 1–28 – via British History Online.
- ^ doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/74199. (Subscription or UK public library membershiprequired.)
- ^ Pocock, Nicholas (1885). . In Stephen, Leslie (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 1. London: Smith, Elder & Co. p. 177.
- ISBN 978-0951763209.