William Wright
1830–89
Semitist. BA, St Andrews, 1849. Honorary doctorate, Leiden, 1853. Professor of Arabic, University College, London, 1855–6; Trinity College, Dublin, 1856–61. Assistant (later assistant keeper), manuscripts, British Museum, 1861. Sir Thomas Adams Professor of Arabic, Cambridge, 1870–89.
Source
ODNB.
Bibliography
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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