LORD BYRON and his TIMES
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| NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: White, Joseph, 1745-1814 DNB: White, Joseph (bap. 1746, d. 1814), orientalist and theologian LBT ID: JoWhite1814 VIAF ID: 2460054 LOC ID: n83165739 | B/BAP: 1746-02-19 DIED: 1814-05-23 |
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Educated at Wadham College, Oxford, he was a clergyman, professor of Arabic (1774) and
regius professor of Hebrew at Oxford (1804). He was faulted for failing to acknowledge the
assistance of Samuel Badcock and Samuel Parr in composing his Bampton lectures of
1784. | |
