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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 32. Chapters: Lancelot Andrewes, Thomas Gray, Richard Foxe, Ugo Pagano, Colin St John Wilson, George Pretyman Tomline, Gabriel Harvey, George Coke, Thomas Risley, William Lyndwood, William Turner, Christopher Hogwood, John Habakkuk, James Raven, Richard Dearlove, W. V. D. Hodge, Ray Dolby, Sylvia Huot, Peter Victor Danckwerts, Richard L. Hunter, Temple Chevallier, Roger Fenton, Lancelot Browne, John Bell, Samuel Clarke, A. David Buckingham, William Fulke, Edward Story, W. B. R. Lickorish, John Neville Keynes, Arthur John Arberry, Nicholas Carr, Edward Wynn, William Holder, John Bridges, Charles Edward Searle, Roger Andrewes, Geoffrey Edwards, Henry Ainslie, W. A. Camps, Bowyer Sparke, Drue Cressener, John Addison, Trevor Allan, William Hutchins. Excerpt: Lancelot Andrewes (1555 - 25 September 1626) was an English clergyman and scholar, who held high positions in the Church of England during the reigns of Queen Elizabeth I and King James I. During the latter's reign, Andrewes served successively as Bishop of Chichester, Ely and Winchester and oversaw the translation of the Authorized Version (or King James Version) of the Bible. In the Church of England he is commemorated on 25 September with a Lesser Festival. Andrewes was born in 1555 in Barking, Essex (now Greater London), of an ancient Suffolk family later domiciled at Chichester Hall, Rawreth; his father, Thomas, was master of Trinity House. Lancelot attended the Cooper's free school, Ratcliff, in the parish of Stepney, and then the Merchant Taylors' School under Richard Mulcaster. In 1571 he entered Pembroke Hall, Cambridge, and graduated with a BA, proceeding to an MA in 1578. His academic reputation spread so quickly that on the foundation in 1571 of Jesus College, Oxford he was named in the charter as one of the founding scholars "without his privity" (Isaacson, 1650);...