John Richardson (translator)

John Richardson (born Linton, Cambridgeshire, c. 1564 – 1625) was a Biblical scholar and a Master of Trinity College, Cambridge from 1615 until his death.

John Richardson matriculated as a sizar from Clare College, Cambridge in 1578,[1] where he graduated B.A.

[1] Some notes of his Lectiones de Predestinatione are preserved in manuscript in Cambridge University Library (Gg.

He and Richard Thomson were among the first of the Cambridge divines who maintained the doctrine Arminianism in opposition to the Calvinists.

[1] Richardson was a skilled hebraist and he served in the "First Cambridge Company", charged by James I of England with the translation of the books of the Old Testament from the Books of Chronicles to Song of Songs (comprising most of the Ketuvim) for the King James Version of the Bible.