Miles Smith (bishop)

Miles Smith

Miles Smith (1554, Hereford – 1624, Gloucester) was a clergyman of the Church of England renowned as a most accomplished theologian, scholar and bibliophile.[1][2] After attaining the degree of DD, or doctor of divinity, he progressed to become Bishop of Gloucester (1612-1624). Although he may have been at times an indifferent administrator, his erudition contributed fundamentally to the translation and production of the King James Bible.[3][4]

  1. ^ J. Tiller, 'Smith, Miles (d. 1624)', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (2004/2008).
  2. ^ Carlyle, E. I. (1898). "Smith, Miles" . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 53. pp. 98–99.
  3. ^ A. McClure, The Translators Revived: A Biographical Memoir of the Authors of the English Version of the Holy Bible (Charles Scribner, New York 1853), pp. 141-43.
  4. ^ A. Nicolson, God's Secretaries: The Making of the King James Bible, (HarperCollins, New York 2003) ISBN 0-06-095975-4