title: Professor of Hebrew and Semitic Languages
text: # Professor of Hebrew and Semitic Languages
  
  The Professor of Hebrew and Semitic Languages is a position at the University of Glasgow in Scotland. It was established in 1709 by Queen Anne as the Chair of Oriental Languages. The title was changed in 1893.
  
  ## Professors of Oriental Languages/Professors of Hebrew and Semitic Languages
  
  * Charles Morthland MA (1709)
  * Alexander Dublop MA LLD (1745)
  * William Rouet MA (1751)
  * George Muirhead MA (1753)
  * John Anderson MA (1755)
  * James Buchanan MA (1757)
  * Patick Cumin MA LLD (1761)
  * Robert Trail MA DD (1761)
  * Gavin Gibb MA LLD (1820)
  * William Fleming MA DD (1831)
  * George Gray DD (1839)
  * Duncan Harkness Weir MA DD (1850)
  * James Robertson MA DD (1877)
  * William Barron Stevenson MA DLitt LLD DD (1907)
  * Cecil James Mullo Weir MA DPhil DD (1937)
  * John McDonald MA BD PhD STM (1968-1987)
  