Sir Thomas Adams's Professor of Arabic
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Sir Thomas Adams’ Professor of Arabic – the title is used at Cambridge University because Sir Thomas Adams, 1st Baronet
(1586-1668), Lord Mayor of London
in 1645, gave to Cambridge University the money needed to create the first Professorship of Arabic.
Sir Thomas Adams, 1st Baronet
Sir Thomas Adams, 1st Baronet was the Lord Mayor of the City of London and a Member of Parliament for the City of London from 1654–1655 and 1656-1658.-Early life:...
(1586-1668), Lord Mayor of London
Lord Mayor of London
The Right Honourable Lord Mayor of London is the legal title for the Mayor of the City of London Corporation. The Lord Mayor of London is to be distinguished from the Mayor of London; the former is an officer only of the City of London, while the Mayor of London is the Mayor of Greater London and...
in 1645, gave to Cambridge University the money needed to create the first Professorship of Arabic.
Sir Thomas Adams Professors
- Abraham Wheelock (1632)
- Edmund CastellEdmund CastellEdmund Castell was an English orientalist.He was born at Tadlow, in Cambridgeshire. At the age of fifteen he entered Emmanuel College, Cambridge, gaining his BA in 1624-5 and his MA in 1628. Appointed Professor of Arabic in 1666, with the full title 'Sir Thomas Adams Professor of Arabic'. He...
(1666) - John Luke (1685)
- Charles Wright (1702)
- Simon OckleySimon OckleySimon Ockley was a British Orientalist.-Biography:Ockley was born at Exeter. He was educated at Queens' College, Cambridge, and graduated B.A. in 1697, MA. in 1701, and B.D. in 1710. He became fellow of Jesus College and vicar of Swavesey, and in 1711 was chosen Adams Professor of Arabic in the...
(1711) - Leonard ChappelowLeonard ChappelowLeonard Chappelow was an English clergyman and orientalist. Hwe was Sir Thomas Adams's Professor of Arabic at the University of Cambridge, from 1720, for life, and also Lord Almoner's Professorship of Arabic.-Life:...
(1720) - Samuel HallifaxSamuel HallifaxSamuel Hallifax or Halifax was an English churchman and academic, holder of several chairs at Cambridge and bishop of two sees.-Life:...
(1768) - William Craven (1770)
- Joseph Dacre CarlyleJoseph Dacre CarlyleJoseph Dacre Carlyle was an English orientalist, born in Carlisle, England, where his father was a physician.In 1775 he went to Cambridge, and was elected a fellow of Queens' College in 1779, taking the degree of Bachelor of Divinity in 1793...
(1795) - John Palmer (1804–1819)
- Samuel Lee (1819)
- Thomas JarrettThomas JarrettThomas Jarrett, DD, was an English churchman and orientalist.-Life:He was educated at St. Catharine's College, Cambridge, where he graduated B.A. in 1827 as thirty-fourth wrangler, and seventh in the first class of the classical tripos...
(1831) - Henry Griffin Williams (1854)
- William WrightWilliam Wright (orientalist)William Wright was a famous British Orientalist, and Professor of Arabic in the University of Cambridge. Many of his works on Syriac literature are still in print and of considerable scholarly value, especially the catalogues of the holdings of the British Library and Cambridge University Library...
(1870) - William Robertson SmithWilliam Robertson SmithWilliam Robertson Smith was a Scottish orientalist, Old Testament scholar, professor of divinity, and minister of the Free Church of Scotland. He was an editor of the Encyclopædia Britannica and contributor to the Encyclopaedia Biblica...
(1889) - Charles Pierre Henri RieuCharles Pierre Henri RieuCharles Pierre Henri Rieu , Swiss Orientalist, was born at Geneva.He studied at Bonn University, where he received his doctors degree in 1843...
(1894) - Edward Granville BrowneEdward Granville BrowneEdward Granville Browne , born in Stouts Hill, Uley, Gloucestershire, England, was a British orientalist who published numerous articles and books of academic value, mainly in the areas of history and literature...
(1902) - Reynold Alleyne Nicholson (1926)
- Charles Ambrose Storey (1933)
- Arthur John ArberryArthur John ArberryArthur John Arberry was a respected British orientalist. A most prolific scholar of Arabic, Persian, and Islamic studies, he was educated at Portsmouth Grammar School and Pembroke College, Cambridge...
(1947) - Robert Bertram Serjeant (1970-1982)
- Malcolm Cameron Lyons (1985)
- Tarif KhalidiTarif KhalidiTarif Khalidi , born January 24, 1938 in Jerusalem, is a Palestinian historian who now holds the Shaykh Zayid Chair in Islamic and Arabic Studies at the American University of Beirut in Lebanon.-Family:...
(1996)