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Noun: William Tindale
  1. English translator and Protestant martyr; his translation of the Bible into English (which later formed the basis for the King James Version) aroused ecclesiastical opposition; he left England in 1524 and was burned at the stake in Antwerp as a heretic (1494-1536)
    - Tyndale, William Tyndale, Tindale, Tindal, William Tindal

Type of: interpreter, martyr, sufferer, translator

Encyclopedia: William Tindale