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See also:BROUGHTON, See also:HUGH (1549-1612) , See also:English See also:scholar and divine, was See also:born at Owlbury, See also:Bishop's See also:Castle, See also:Shropshire, in 1549• He was educated by See also:Bernard See also:Gilpin at See also:Houghton-le-See also:Spring and at See also:Cambridge, where he became See also:fellow of St See also:John's and then of See also:Christ's, and took orders. Here he laid the See also:foundation of the See also:Hebrew scholarship for which he was afterwards so distinguished. From Cambridge he went to See also:London, where his eloquence gained him many and powerful See also:friends. In 1588 he published his first See also:work, " a little See also:book of See also:great pains," entitled A Concent of Scripture. This work, dealing with biblical See also:chronology and textual See also:criticism, was attacked at both See also:universities, and the author was obliged to defend it in a See also:series of lectures. In 1589 he went to See also:Germany, where he frequently engaged in discussions both with Romanists and with the learned See also:Jews whom he met at See also:Frankfort and elsewhere. in 1591 he returned to See also:England, but his Puritan leanings incurred the hostility of See also:Whitgift. Accordingly in 1J92 he once more went abroad, and cultivated the acquaintance of the See also:principal scholars of See also:Europe, including Scaligeri and See also:Rabbi See also:Elias. Such was the esteem in which he was held, even by his opponents, that he might have had a See also:cardinal's See also:hat if he had been willing to See also:change his faith. In 1599 he published his " Explication " of the See also:article " He descended into See also:hell," is which he maintained that Hades means simply the See also:abode of departed See also:spirits, not the See also:place of torment. On the See also:accession of See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
James he returned to England; but not being engaged to co-operate in the new See also:translation of the See also:Bible (though he had for some years planned a similar work), he retired to Middleburg in See also:- HOLLAND
- HOLLAND, CHARLES (1733–1769)
- HOLLAND, COUNTY AND PROVINCE OF
- HOLLAND, HENRY FOX, 1ST BARON (1705–1774)
- HOLLAND, HENRY RICH, 1ST EARL OF (1S9o-,649)
- HOLLAND, HENRY RICHARD VASSALL FOX, 3RD
- HOLLAND, JOSIAH GILBERT (1819-1881)
- HOLLAND, PHILEMON (1552-1637)
- HOLLAND, RICHARD, or RICHARD DE HOLANDE (fl. 1450)
- HOLLAND, SIR HENRY, BART
Holland, where he preached to the English See also:congregation. In
1611 he returned to England, where he died on the 4th of See also:August 1612.
Some of his See also:works were collected and published in a large See also:folio See also:volume in 1662, with a See also:sketch of his See also:life by John See also:Lightfoot, but many of his theological See also:MSS. remain still unedited in the See also:British Museum.
End of Article: BROUGHTON, HUGH (1549-1612)
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