Richard Taverner (M / Britain, 1505-1575), scholar
Richard Taverner (c1505-1575) was a British scholar, best known for his Bible translation in 1539 and as the author of the first edition of the OT Apocrypha in 1549.
Richard Taverner was born at Brisley, England around 1505. An early sympathizer of the Reformation in England, Taverner got into trouble in 1528 for promoting the reading of William Tyndale's New Testament and forced to a public act of penance with Thomas Gerrard. Taverner later graduated at Cambridge University. During the tenure of powerful chief minister Thomas Cromwell (1532-40), Taverner became actively engaged in producing works designed to encourage the Reformation in England, which included the publication of a new translation of the Bible in 1539, and a commentary published in 1540 with King Henry VIII's approval. Taverner was able to survive the demise of Thomas Cromwell, and after a brief period of imprisonment was restored to royal favor. In 1549, three years after the Council of Trento, Taverner edited the first edition of the OT Apocrypha in English; it was the first book ever specifically devoted to this corpus, largely based on texts already published in the Taverner’s Bible of 1539. Edmund Becke is credited for revising the translations. Taverner quietly disappeared from public life during her reign of the Catholic Queen Mary (1553-58), to reemerge as a popular preacher at St. Mary's Church, Oxford after the accession of Elizabeth I. Taverner died on July 14, 1575 and was buried in the chancel of the church at Wood Eaton near Oxford.
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