Sir Thomas Adams's Professor of Arabic
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.[1]
Sir Thomas Adams Professors
- Abraham Wheelock (1632)
- Edmund Castell (1666)
- John Luke (1685)
- Charles Wright (1702)[2]
- Simon Ockley (1711)
- Leonard Chappelow (1720)
- Samuel Hallifax (1768)
- William Craven (1770)
- Joseph Dacre Carlyle (1795)
- John Palmer (1804–1819)[3]
- Samuel Lee (1819)[4]
- Thomas Jarrett (1831)
- Henry Griffin Williams (1854)
- William Wright (1870)
- William Robertson Smith (1889)
- Charles Pierre Henri Rieu (1894)
- Edward Granville Browne (1902)
- Reynold Alleyne Nicholson (1926)
- Charles Ambrose Storey (1933)
- Arthur John Arberry (1947)
- Robert Bertram Serjeant (1970-1982)
- Malcolm Cameron Lyons (1985)
- Tarif Khalidi (1996)
Notes
- ^ Chalmers, Alexander. The General Biographical Dictionary: Containing an Historical and Critical Account of the Lives and Writings of the most Eminent Persons in Every Nation; Particularly the British and Irish; from the Earliest Accounts to the Present Time. new ed. rev. and enl. London: Nichols [et al.], 1812-1817. 32 vols.
- ^ "Wright, Charles (WRT652C)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- ^ "Palmer, John (PLMR787J)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- ^ Haigh, John D. "Lee, Samuel". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/16309. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)