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Lightfoot, John
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Orientalist and divine, born at Stoke-upon-Trent, son of a clergyman, educated at Cambridge; took orders and was rector of Ashley, Staffordshire, till 1642; next year he was one of the most influential members of the Westminster Assembly; in 1652 he was made D.D., was Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge in 1653, and subsequently prebendary of Ely; one of England's earlier Hebrew scholars, the great work of his life was the "Horæ Hebraicæ et Talmudicæ," published in large part posthumously (1602-1675).
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Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Lightfoot, John'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/nut/l/lightfoot-john.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Lightfoot, John'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/nut/l/lightfoot-john.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
