Lord Almoner's Professor of Arabic

At Oxford the chair, although endowed for the teaching of Arabic, was sometimes used for teaching Hebrew, and sometimes held by the same person as the Laudian Professor. The chair was discontinued on the retirement of the incumbent in 1909. == Cambridge ==

At Cambridge the chair was initially founded as a readership. Before it was upgraded to a professorship before or in 1815 it was usually combined with the Sir Thomas Adams's Professor of Arabic chair and held by the same person. The chair, "which for two centuries" had "a distinguished record, but carried only a nominal stipend", was discontinued on the death of the incumbent, Professor Anthony Ashley Bevan, in 1933. Lord Almoner's Readers • David Wilkins (1724) • Leonard Chappelow (1729) • Samuel Hallifax (1768) • William Craven (1770) Lord Almoner's Professors • George Cecil Renouard (1815–1821) • Thomas Musgrave (1821) • Thomas Robinson (1837–1854) • Theodore Preston (1855) • Edward Henry Palmer (1871–1882) • William Robertson Smith (1883) • Ion Grant Neville Keith-Falconer (1886) • Robert Lubbock Bensly (1887) • Anthony Ashley Bevan (1893) - contributor to the Encyclopaedia Biblica == References ==