Dakins, William (1)

one of the translators of King James's Bible, was educated at Westminster School and Trinity College, where he became a junior fellow October 3, 1593, and senior fellow the following March. In 1601 he was made Greek lecturer of that college, and in 1604, was chosen professor of divinity in. Gresham College. He died in February 1607. He was one of two who translated the epistles of St. Paul and the canonical epistles, but did not live to see the work completed. See Chalmers, Biog. Dict. s.v.; Allibone, Dict. of Brit. and Amer. Authors, s.v.