NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Yeates, Thomas, 1768-1839 NRA: Yeates Thomas (1768-1839) Orientalist and Historian DNB: Yeates, Thomas (1768-1839), orientalist and biblical scholar LBT ID: ThYeate1839 VIAF ID: 3965085 LOC ID: n86814135 | B/BAP: 1768-10-09 DIED: 1839-10-07 |
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Scholar of oriental languages educated at All Souls College, Oxford; he was patronized by
Bishop Thomas Burgess, who appointed him secretary of the Royal Society of Literature
(1821), and assistant in the British Museum's printed book department (1823). | |
REFERENCES TO Thomas Yeates: Thomas Burgess to William Jerdan, 2 May 1821 in The Autobiography of William Jerdan. 4 vols (London: Arthur Hall, Vertue & Co., 1852-53) Found 1:
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