Edward Meetkerke

Edward Meetkerke (1590 – August 1657) was an English clergyman and academic, Regius Professor of Hebrew at Oxford from 1620.

He was born in the parish of St Botolph, Aldersgate, London, and baptized in the Dutch Church, Austin Friars, on 29 September 1590.

He was the only son of Sir Adolphus van Meetkerke, ambassador to England from the States-General of the Netherlands, by his second wife, Margaret (1549–1594), daughter of John Lichtervelde of Flanders.

He was educated at Westminster School, was elected to Christ Church, Oxford, in 1606, and matriculated on 16 January 1607.

Under the Commonwealth, he was deprived of his prebend and retired to his rectory, where he died in August 1657, and was buried in the middle of the chancel of the church.