| LC control no. | nr 94021171 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Cureton, William, 1808-1864 |
| Variant(s) | Kūritūn, Wilyam, 1808-1864 كورتون، وليم |
| Associated country | England |
| Associated place | London (England) |
| Birth date | 1808-01 |
| Death date | 1864-06-17 |
| Place of birth | Westbury (Shropshire, England) |
| Place of death | Westbury (Shropshire, England) |
| Field of activity | Syriac philology Cataloging of manuscripts |
| Affiliation | British Museum. Department of Oriental Printed Books and Manuscripts Church of England |
| Profession or occupation | Librarians Philologists Priests |
| Special note | Machine-derived non-Latin script reference project. Non-Latin script reference not evaluated. |
| Found in | ʻUmdat ʻaqīdat ahl al-sunnah wa-al-jamāʻah, 1843: t.p. (William Cureton [in rom.]) Ziriklī (Kūritūn, Wilyam Kūritūn, William Cureton [in rom.]; 1223-1281/1808-1864) Athanasius, Saint. The Festal letters of Athanasius, 1848: title page (William Cureton, M.A., F.R.S., chaplain in ordinary to the Queen; Assistant Keeper of Manuscripts in the British Museum) Oxford dictionary of national biography, viewed online on November 14, 2019 (Cureton, William; scholar of Syriac; baptized January 17, 1808, in Westbury, Shropshire; studied at Oxford; ordained to the Anglican priesthood in 1832; became a chaplain-in-ordinary to Queen Victoria in 1847; was librarian at the Bodleian Library before moving to the British Museum in 1837; cataloged the Museum's Arabic and Syriac manuscripts; died June 17, 1864, in Westbury) |
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