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| 1678 births | |
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| 1720 deaths | |
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BIOGRAPHY Ockley was born at Exeter . He was educated at Queens' College, Cambridge , and graduated B.A. in 1697 , MA. in 1701 , and B.D. in 1710 ; he became fellow of Jesus College and vicar of Swavesey , and in 1711 was chosen Arabic professor of the university. He had a large family, and his latter days were embittered by pecuniary embarrassments, which form the subject of a chapter in Isaac D'Israeli 's ''Calamities of Authors''. The preface to the second volume of his '' History Of The Saracens '' is dated from Cambridge Castle , where he lay a prisoner for debt. Ockley maintained that a knowledge of Oriental literature was essential to the proper study of theology, and in the preface to his first book, the '' Introductio Ad Linguas Orientates '' ( 1706 ), he urges the importance of the study. He died at Swavesey . WORKS
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