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| caption = Sir Thomas Arnold
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| name = Thomas Walker Arnold
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==Life==
[[File:Brieven van Thomas Walker Arnold (1864-1930) aan Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje (1857-1936) Or. 8952 A 80.pdf|thumb|page=3|Letter to Snouck Hurgronje (1902)]]
Thomas Walker Arnold was born in [[Devonport, Plymouth]] on 19 April 1864,<ref name=MakingBritain/> and educated at the [[City of London School]]. From 1888 he worked as a teacher at the [[Muhammadan Anglo-Oriental College]], [[Aligarh]]. In 1892 he married Celia Mary Hickson,<ref name=Iranica/> a niece of [[Theodore Beck]].<ref name=MakingBritain/>
In 1898, he accepted a post as Professor of Philosophy at the [[Government College, Lahore]] and later became Dean of the Oriental Faculty at [[University of the Punjab|Punjab University]].<ref name=Iranica/>
From 1904 to 1909, he was on the staff of the India Office as Assistant Librarian. In 1909 he was appointed Educational Adviser to Indian students in Britain.<ref name=MakingBritain>{{Cite web|url=http://www.open.ac.uk/researchprojects/makingbritain/content/thomas-w-arnold|title=Thomas W. Arnold {{!}} Making Britain|website=open.ac.uk|access-date=2016-08-08}}</ref> From 1917 to 1920 he acted as Adviser to the [[Secretary of State for India]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/949681.Thomas_Walker_Arnold|title=Thomas Walker Arnold|website=Goodreads|access-date=2016-08-08}}</ref> He was Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies at the [[School of Oriental and African Studies|School of Oriental Studies]], [[University of London]], from 1921 to 1930.<ref name=Iranica/>
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