- OCKLEY, SIMON
- Orientalist, became professor of Arabic; wrote a "History of the Saracens," part of it in a debtors' prison; died in indigence (1678-1720).
The Nuttall Encyclopaedia. James Wood. 1907.
OCKLEY, SIMON
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