Ronald Knox
Ronald Arbuthnott Knox (17 February 1888 – 24 August 1957) was an English priest, theologian and writer, including crime novels and regular broadcasts for BBC Radio. Knox had attended Eton College, and he won several scholarships at Balliol College, Oxford. Knox was ordained as an Anglican minister in 1912 and was appointed chaplain of Trinity College, Oxford, but he left in 1917 to convert to Catholicism. In 1918 he was ordained as a Catholic priest. Ronald Knox wrote many books of essays and novels. Directed by his religious superiors, he re-translated the Latin Vulgate Bible into English, using Hebrew and Greek sources, beginning in 1936.
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