Benjamin Blayney (1728 – 20 September 1801) was an Englishdivine andHebraist, best known for his editorial revision of theKing James Version of the Bible.
Blayney was educated atWorcester College, Oxford (B.A. 1750), and became fellow and later vice-principal ofHertford College.[1] He was awardedB.D. in 1768.[1]
He was employed by theClarendon Press to prepare a corrected edition of theKing James Version of the Bible. This appeared in 1769, but most of it was destroyed by fire in the Bible warehouse,Paternoster Row, London. Blayney then studied Hebrew; he received the degree of D.D., was appointed Regius professor of Hebrew in 1787, and in the same year was made canon ofChrist Church, Oxford.[2]
On 20 September 1801, he died at his rectory ofPoulshot,Wiltshire.[2]
Bradley, Henry (1886)."Blayney, Benjamin" . InStephen, Leslie (ed.).Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 5. London:Smith, Elder & Co. p. 208.
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