Simon Ockley, vicar of Swavesey, Cambridgeshire, devoted himself from an early age to the study of eastern languages and customs and was appointed Sir Thomas Adams Professor of Arabic at Cambridge in 1711.
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Edward Gibbon, who admired and used his work, speaks of his fate as “unworthy of the man and of his country.”
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