The year 2011 marks the 400th anniversary of the publication of the King James version of the Bible. Two of its translators are associated with the images seen in the photo gallery to the left.
Dr. Robert Ward served as rector of the parish church in the small town of Bishop's Waltham, Hampshire, England, from 1623 to 1629. In 1626, Ward was presented a beautiful Jacobean pulpit by Bishop Lancelot Andrewes, then serving as bishop of Winchester.
Andrewes had also been bishop of Chichester and Ely. Information in the church at Bishop's Waltham says the pulpit came from Venice.
Both Ward and Andrewes served as translators of the King James Version. Ward served on the Second Cambridge Company translating the Apocrypha; Andrewes chaired the First Westminster Company, translating the books of Genesis–2 Kings.