Sir Thomas Adams's Professor of Arabic

Title used at Cambridge University

Sir Thomas Adams's Professor of Arabic is a title used at Cambridge University for the holder of a professorship of Arabic; 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's 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– )[7]

See also

Notes

  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ Brooke, Christopher; Highfield, Roger; Swaan, Wim, photographs by (1988). Oxford and Cambridge. Cambridge [England]: Cambridge University Press. p. 180. ISBN 0-521-30139-4.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  3. ^ "Wright, Charles (WRT652C)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  4. ^ "Palmer, John (PLMR787J)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  5. ^ 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.)
  6. ^ "University intelligence - Cambridge". The Times. No. 36755. London. 30 April 1902. p. 11.
  7. ^ "Elections". Cambridge University Reporter (6266). 16 May 2012. Retrieved 5 September 2019.