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R. T. France

R. T. France
Born Richard Thomas France
2 April 1938
Londonderry, Northern Ireland
Died 10 February 2012
Llangelynin, Wales
Education PhD, Tyndale Hall, Bristol
Known for New Testament scholar.

Richard Thomas France (2 April 1938 – 10 February 2012) was a New Testament scholar and Anglican cleric. He was Principal of Wycliffe Hall Oxford from 1989 to 1995. He also worked for the London School of Theology.

Richard T. (Dick) France was born on 2 April 1938. He was educated at Bradford Grammar School and Balliol College, Oxford (BA, 1960; MA 1963). He earned his BD at Tyndale Hall, University of London (1963) and his PhD at Tyndale Hall, Bristol (1967). He served pastoral charges in England and Wales from 1995 until his retirement in 1999. He died on 10 February 2012.

He had been a member (since 1989; vice-chairman since 2005) of the Committee on Bible Translation responsible for the New International Version of the Bible (NIV), and for Today’s New International Version (2005).

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