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Robert Tighe
English cleric and linguist (1562–1620)
Robert Tighe (or Teigh or Tyghe, sometimes misspelled Leigh) (1562 – 31 August 1616) was an English cleric and linguist.
Tighe was born in Deeping, Lincolnshire in 1562.[1] He was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge[2] and Magdalen College, Oxford.[3]
He served as Vicar of Chiddingfold, Surrey (1596–1616),[1] Vicar of the Church of All Hallows in London (1598–1616),[4] and Archdeacon of Middlesex (1602–1616).[5] He left his son an unusually large estate of £1000 per annum. He was among the "First Westminster Company" charged by James I of England with the translation of the first 12 books of the King James Version of the Bible.