Patrick Cumming

Patrick Cumming (or Patrick Cumin) FRSE (1741 – 1820) was a professor of Oriental Languages at the University of Glasgow, philologist and joint founder of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. He was, at that time, the longest served of any known Scottish professor.

His father has the same name.

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