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Thomas Hunt (Arabic scholar)

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in 1747; he gave up the Lord Almoner's chair when taking up the Regius Professorship. He published extensively on Arabic and Hebrew matters, and was a well-regarded scholar who encouraged others. He died on 31 October 1774 and was buried in
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from 1718, and was ordained deacon in 1720 and priest in 1721. Ecclesiastical appointments that he held were
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English academic, Oxford Laudian Professor of Arabic (1696–1774)
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Lord Almoner's Professors of Arabic (University of Oxford)
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Laudian Professor of Arabic
University of Oxford
Horsington, Somerset
University of Oxford
Christ Church, Oxford
matriculating
Bachelor of Arts
Hart Hall, Oxford
rector
Chelwood
prebend
Whitelackington
Thomas Parker, 1st Earl of Macclesfield
Bix, Oxfordshire
Shirburn
Laudian Professor of Arabic
Lord Almoner's Professor of Arabic
Fellow of the Royal Society
Regius Professor of Hebrew
Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford
canonry
"Hunt, Thomas (1696–1774)"
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
Oxford University Press
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Laudian Professors of Arabic
William Laud

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