Philip Bouquett or Bouquet (1669–1748) was a French linguist who became Regius Professor of Hebrew at the

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Life

Bouquett was from

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in France and sent as a refugee to be educated at

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. He was elected in 1689 to a scholarship at

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. He became B.A. 1692, M A. 1696, B.D. 1706, D.D. 1711. He was ordained in the

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in 1703. When a vacancy occurred in the professorship of Hebrew in 1704, which it was thought desirable to confer on Henry Sike, Bouquett was temporarily appointed to it in the absence of Sike, a better-known orientalist. Sike was elected in August 1705, but on the professorship falling vacant again seven years later, Bouquett was elected to fill it permanently. He died senior fellow of Trinity on 12 February 1748, aged 79. As a Fellow of Trinity he refused to sign the petition against

Richard Bentley Richard Bentley FRS (; 27 January 1662 – 14 July 1742) was an English classical scholar, critic, and theologian. Considered the "founder of historical philology", Bentley is widely credited with establishing the English school of Hellen ...

; he was considered eccentric if rich. Bouquett contributed a copy of elegiacs to the university collection of poems on the death of George I and accession of George II in 1727. He left money to French refugees.

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* Regius Professors of Hebrew (Cambridge) {{DEFAULTSORT:Bouquett, Philip 1669 births 1748 deaths French Protestants Fellows of Trinity College, Cambridge Christian Hebraists Linguists from France 18th-century linguists 17th-century linguists People from La Rochelle People educated at Westminster School, London