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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.

Sir Thomas Adams's Professors
• Abraham Wheelocke (1632) • Edmund Castell (1666) • John Luke (1685) • Charles Wright (1702–1710) • Simon Ockley (1711) • Leonard Chappelow (1720) • Samuel Hallifax (1768) • William Craven (1770) • Joseph Dacre Carlyle (1795) • John Palmer (1804) • Samuel Lee (1819) • Thomas Jarrett (1831) • Henry Griffin Williams (1854) • William Wright (1870) • William Robertson Smith (1889) • Charles Pierre Henri Rieu (1894) • Edward Granville Browne (1902) • 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– ) ==See also==
Source: Wikipedia ↗
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