Languages •
Alexander Hamilton taught Sanskrit and Bengali (1806–18). • Charles Stewart taught Hindustani (Urdu) and Persian (1806–). •
Graves Chamney Haughton (1817–27) FRS previously of
Fort William College, Calcutta, taught Hindustani, Persian, Arabic, Bengali and Sanskrit. •
Francis Johnson taught Sanskrit, Bengali and Telugu (1824–55). •
Mirza Muhammed Ibrahim, a Persian, held a permanent appointment as a professor of Arabic and
Persian (1826–44) •
Monier Monier-Williams taught Sanskrit, Bengali and Telugu (1844–58). •
Edward Backhouse Eastwick was Professor of Hindustani, Hindi and Marathi (1845–57). • Major J. W. J.Ouseley, Professor of Persian and Arabic (previously Professor of the Arabic and Persian Languages in the College of Fort-William, Calcutta) (1844–57) •
Sheth Ghoolam Hyder, Professor of Persian and had the title of
Oriental Writing Master Law •
Edward Christian (1806–18) •
James Mackintosh was Professor of Law and General Politics 1818–24. •
William Empson, was Professor of Law (1824–52). •
John Farley Leith QC (1872–80), later Member of Parliament for
Aberdeen Political Economy •
Thomas Malthus taught from 1805–34. •
Richard Jones was Professor of History and Political Economy (1834–55). • The
Rt Hon Sir James Stephen also taught political economy (1855–57)
Mathematics and Natural Philosophy •
William Dealtry was Professor of Mathematics 1806–13. He had been
Second Wrangler in 1796. •
Bewick Bridge (1767–1833) was Professor of
Mathematics 1806–16. • Charles Webb Le Bas (1813–37) •
Charles Babbage applied unsuccessfully for a job in 1816. •
Henry Walter (1816–30) •
William Sturgeon lectured on
science in 1824. • Frederick Smith (1831–50) of
Peterhouse, Cambridge • J. W. L. Heaviside (1838–57) previously of Trinity College, and then Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, where he graduated Second Wrangler and a
Smith's Prize winner in 1830, and tutored until he moved to Haileybury.
Classical and General Literature • Edward Lewton (1806–30) • Joseph Hallett Batten (1806–15) •
James Amiraux Jeremie (also Dean) (1830–50), elected in 1850 Regius Professor of Divinity at Cambridge. • W. E. Buckley (1850–57) previously tutor and fellow at
Brasenose College, Oxford and Professor of Anglo-Saxon at Oxford (1844–50), and a member and subsequently vice-president of the
Roxburghe Club.
Other •
Henry George Keene, who served at the
Battle of Seringapatam with the first
Lord Harris (his uncle), and whose American wife, though she came of a
New England family, was related to
Lord Cornwallis. His
son became a Fellow of the
University of Calcutta and a prolific writer. •
Horace Hayman Wilson, Examiner in Sanskrit (1837–57) Assistants in the Oriental Department included Maulavi Abdal Aly (1809–12), Maulavi Mirza Khedel (1809–19), The Revd. Robert Anderson (1820–25), and
David Shea (1826–36).
Moonshy Ghoolam Hyder and Thomas Medland taught oriental writing. ==Notable alumni==