Richard Brown (c. 1712 – 1780?) was an academic at the

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. He

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at Hart Hall, Oxford, in 1727 at the age of 15, obtaining his Bachelor of Arts degree from Trinity College in 1731. He was made a

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of the college in 1734, when he obtained his

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degree, with his Bachelor of Divinity degree following in 1742 and a doctorate in divinity in 1752. He was appointed as Lord Almoner's Professor of Arabic at the University of Oxford in 1748, and also became Regius Professor of Hebrew at Oxford in 1774, holding both positions until 1780. He was an ordained clergyman in the

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; a canon of

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, he was also appointed

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of St Mary's Paddington in 1756.

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1710s births Year of death missing Alumni of Hart Hall, Oxford Alumni of Trinity College, Oxford Fellows of Trinity College, Oxford Regius Professors of Hebrew (University of Oxford) 18th-century English Anglican priests Lord Almoner's Professors of Arabic (University of Oxford) {{UK-academic-bio-stub