Sir Thomas Adams's Professor of Arabic
Sir Thomas Adams’ Professor of Arabic is a title 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]
The professorship was partly created to propagate the Christian faith "to them who now sit in darkness".[2]
Sir Thomas Adams Professors
- Abraham Wheelocke (1632)
- Edmund Castell (1666)
- John Luke (1685)
- Charles Wright (1702–1710)[3]
- Simon Ockley (1711)
- Leonard Chappelow (1720)
- Samuel Hallifax (1768)
- William Craven (1770)
- Joseph Dacre Carlyle (1795)
- John Palmer (1804)[4]
- Samuel Lee (1819)[5]
- Thomas Jarrett (1831)
- Henry Griffin Williams (1854)
- William Wright (1870)
- William Robertson Smith (1889)
- Charles Pierre Henri Rieu (1894)
- Edward Granville Browne (1902)[6]
- Reynold Alleyne Nicholson (1926)
- Charles Ambrose Storey (1933)
- Arthur John Arberry (1947–1969)
- Robert Bertram Serjeant (1970–1982)
- Malcolm Cameron Lyons (1985)
- Tarif Khalidi (1996–2002)
- James Montgomery (2012)
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.
- ↑ Brooke, Christopher; Swaan, Roger Highfield; photographs by Wim (1988). Oxford and Cambridge (1. publ. ed.). Cambridge [England]: Cambridge University Press. p. 180. ISBN 0521301394.
- ↑ "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.)
- ↑ "University intelligence - Cambridge" The Times (London). Wednesday, 30 April 1902. (36755), p. 11.