Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Byng, Andrew
BYNG, ANDREW, D.D. (1574–1652), Hebraist, was born at Cambridge, and educated at Peterhouse in that university. He was elected regius professor of Hebrew in 1608, and died at Winterton in Norfolk in March 1651–2. Byng was one of the translators of the authorised version of the Bible. About 1605 the chapter of York resolved to keep a residentiary's place for him, as he was then occupied in this business.
[Cooper's Annals of Cambridge, iii. 448; Brit. Mus. Cat.; Drake's Eboracum, app. p. lxxvii; Notes and Queries, 3rd ser. iv. 228.]
Dictionary of National Biography, Errata (1904), p.47
N.B.— f.e. stands for from end and l.l. for last line
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| 115 | i | 13 | Byng, Andrew: for 1651 read 1652 |
| 18 | for 1651 read March 1651-2 | ||
| 22 | after business insert He was sub-dean of York for forty-six years, from 1606 till his death |