George Cecil Renouard [SEP] date of death
George Cecil Renouard
George Cecil Renouard (7 September 1780 – 15 February 1867) was an English classical and oriental scholar.
Biography.
Renouard, born at Stamford, Lincolnshire, on 7 September 1780, was the youngest son of Peter Renouard (d. 1801) of Stamford, adjutant in the Rutland Militia, by Mary, daughter of John Henry Ott, rector of Gamston, Nottinghamshire, and prebendary of Richmond and Peterborough.
George entered St Paul's School, London, in 1793, and in the same
Adams's Professorship of Arabic and held by the same person.
The chair, "which for two centuries" had "a distinguished record, but carried only a nominal stipend", was discontinued on the death of the incumbent, Professor Anthony Ashley Bevan, in 1933.
Cambridge Lord Almoner's Readers.
- David Wilkins (1724)
- Leonard Chappelow (1729)
- Samuel Hallifax (1768)
- William Craven (1770)
Cambridge Lord Almoner's Professors.
- George Cecil Renouard (1815–1821