Background
He was born in Carlisle, Cumberland, where his father George Carlyle practised as a physician.
He was born in Carlisle, Cumberland, where his father George Carlyle practised as a physician.
He was educated at Carlisle grammar school and then Kirkby Lonsdale School before being accepted by Christ"s College, Cambridge. During his residence at Cambridge he studied with David Zamio (Europeanised name) from Baghdad.
He shortly afterwards moved to Queens" College. He proceeded Bachelor of Arts in 1779, and was elected a fellow of Queens", took his M.A, degree in 1783, and Bachelor of Divinity in 1793. He was appointed Sir Thomas Adams"s Professor of Arabic on the resignation of William Craven in 1796.
In the meantime he had obtained some church preferment at Carlisle, and had succeeded Paley in 1793 as chancellor of the diocese.
In 1792, he published the Rerum Ægyptiacarum Annales, translated from the Arabic of Ibn Taghribirdi. And in 1796 Specimens of Arabian Poetry, translations with some details of the authors selected.
In 1799, Carlyle was appointed chaplain to Lord Elgin"s mission to Constantinople, with the special scholarly duties of learned referee. He made a tour through Asia Minor, Palestine, Greece, and Italy, collecting Greek and Syriac manuscripts for a proposed new version of the New Testament.
Returning to England in September 1801, Carlyle was presented the living of Newcastle-on-Tyne.
His health was poor, and he died after an illness on 13 April 1804. Minuscule 470
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