CHENERY

Thomas , b. Barbados 1826; ed. at Eton and Caius coll. Cam., B.A. 1854, M.A. 1868; correspondent of Times at Constantinople 1854–6, wrote leading articles and reviews in Times ; barrister L.I. 10 June 1859; Lord Almoner’s profe or of Arabic at Oxford, April 1868 to Nov. 1877; member of Ch. Ch. Ox., incorporated M.A. 1868; member of 2 cla of Imperial order of Medjidie, July 1869; secretary to Royal Asiatic Society; one of the revisers of Old Testament 1870–83; editor of Times Nov. 1877 to death, worked on it to 1 Feb. 1884; published The six a emblies of El Hariry translated 1867; edited the Machberoth Ithiel of Jehudah ben Shelomo Alkharzi . d. 16 Serjeant’s Inn, Fleet st. London 11 Feb. 1884. Journal of Royal Asiatic Soc. xvi, pp. xii-xv (1884); Times 12 Feb. 1884 p. 6, cols. 5–6 ; I.L.N. lxxxiv , 180 (1884), portrait ; Graphic xxix , 148 (1884), portrait .