Sir Thomas Adams's Professor of Arabic

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

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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.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 (36755). London. 30 April 1902. p. 11.
  7. "Elections". Cambridge University Reporter (6266). 16 May 2012. Retrieved 5 September 2019.
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