John Duport

John Duport (died 1617) was an English scholar and translator.

Dr John Duport was born in Shepshed in Leicestershire.

[1] In 1583, he became rector of Fulham, and in 1585, precentor of St Paul's Cathedral.

[1] He served as Director of the "Second Cambridge Company" charged by James I of England with translating parts the Apocrypha for the King James Version of the Bible.

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