Thomas Robinson (orientalist)

Thomas Robinson (1790 – 17 May 1873) was an English churchman and academic who became the Archdeacon of Madras in 1826,[1] Lord Almoner's Professor of Arabic at Cambridge in 1837, and Master of the Temple in 1845.

He was present at Trichinopoly on 2 April 1826, when Heber was drowned, and preached and published a funeral sermon.

[2] In 1837 Robinson was appointed Lord Almoner's Professor of Arabic at the University of Cambridge.

In 1845 he was elected Master of the Temple, and in 1847 was appointed Prebendary of Mora with a stall in St Paul's Cathedral.

The first part, The History of Joseph from the Pentateuch, appeared in 1825, and two others, Isaiah to Malachi and Chronicles to Canticles, in 1837 and 1838.

[6] He was survived by his wife Mary, and by two sons who were clerics, Charles Edward Ricketts (born in Madras 1829, died 1881), and Thomas (died 1895) who was a Cambridge Apostle and Head Master of Potsdam School, Jamaica.