Edward Meetkerke was an English clergyman and academic, Regius Professor of Hebrew at Oxford from 1620.
Background
He was born in the parish of Street Botolph, Aldersgate, London, and baptised in the Dutch Church, Austin Friars, on 29 September 1590. He was the only son of Sir Adolphus van Meetkerke, ambassador to England from the States-General of the Netherlands, by his second wife, Margaret (1549–1594), daughter of John Lichtervelde of Flanders.
Education
He was educated at Westminster School, was elected to Christ Church, Oxford, in 1606, and matriculated on 16 January 1607. He graduated Bachelor of Arts in 1610, was chosen student, and became a tutor in his college.
Career
In 1613 he proceeded Master of Arts, was incorporated Master of Arts at Cambridge in 1617, and received the Bachelor of Divinity degree at Oxford with license to preach on 19 June 1620. He became Doctor of Divinity on 26 May 1625. Meetkerke was elected to the regius professorship of Hebrew at Oxford on 8 November 1620.
He resigned it in 1626 on being presented to the rectory of Easton, Hampshire.
On 9 January 1631 he was installed prebendary of Winchester Cathedral. Under the Commonwealth he was deprived of his prebend and retired to his rectory, where he died in August 1657, and was buried in the middle of the chancel of the church.
Having inherited his father"s estate and bought property in Hampshire, he died comparatively rich.