WILLIAM TENNANT
\wˈɪli͡əm tˈɛnənt], \wˈɪliəm tˈɛnənt], \w_ˈɪ_l_iə_m t_ˈɛ_n_ə_n_t]\
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A Scottish Oriental scholar; born at Anstruther, Fifeshire, May 15, 1784; died Oct. 14, 1848. He was professor of Oriental languages at St. Andrews University from 1834. He published: "The Anster Concert" (1811), and "Anster Fair", both poems descriptive of rural Scottish life; several later poems and dramas; a "Syriac and Chaldee Grammar" (1840); a "Life of Allan Ramsay" (1808); and numerous contributions to periodicals, including translations from Oriental poets.
By Charles Dudley Warner
