Charles Robert Cecil Augustine Allberry (9 November 1911 – 3 April 1943) was an English Egyptologist and Coptic scholar. Events 694 - Egica, a king of the Visigoths of Hispania, accuses Jews of aiding Muslims sentencing all Year 1911 ( MCMXI) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year Events 1043 - Edward the Confessor is crowned King of England. Year 1943 ( MCMXLIII) was a Common year starting on Friday (the link will display full 1943 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. England is a Country which is part of the United Kingdom. Its inhabitants account for more than 83% of the total UK population whilst its mainland Egyptology (from Egypt and Greek grc -λογία -logia. علم المصريات مصر شناسی is a major field of Archaeology Coptic or Coptic Egyptian ( MetRemenkīmi) is the final stage of the Egyptian language, a northern Afro-Asiatic language spoken in Egypt A friend of novelist CP Snow, Allberry was the model for Roy Calvert in Snow's novel, The Light and the Dark. Charles Percy Snow Baron Snow CBE ( 15 October 1905 &ndash 1 July 1980) was an English Physicist and Novelist The Light and the Dark is the fourth novel in CP Snow 's Strangers and Brothers series
Allberry attended St Dunstan's College, Catford and Christ's College, Cambridge, and become a fellow of Christ's in 1935. St Dunstan's College is a co-educational Independent school in South East London, England. Catford is a town in London located at the heart of the London Borough of Lewisham, England Christ’s College is one of the colleges of the University of Cambridge.
Allberry translated Manichaean manuscripts, and is particularly known for translating and editing the first edition of A Manichean Psalm-Book, Part II, in 1938. Manichaeism (in Modern Persian fa-Arab آیین مانی Āyin e Māni; Chinese zh 摩尼教 was one of the major Gnostic Religions originating He also compiled a Coptic dictionary, unfinished at his death. He served as editor of the Journal of Egyptian Archaeology (from 1939). The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology or JEA ( is a scientific journal containing scholarly articles and reviews of recent books of importance to Egyptology
During World War II, he joined the Royal Air Force and died in action in Nedeweert, Holland, 3 April 1943. Holland is a region in the western part of the Netherlands. A maritime and economic power in the 17th century Holland today consists of the Dutch provinces of
He was married to Patricia Katherine Grace Sandbach.
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- CA Charles Robert Cecil Augustine Allberry (1911-43), Egyptologist, Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Cambridge
- Cambridge Universities Libraries Information Bulletin 47, 2000
- Mani and Manichaeism in the BPH, Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica, J.R. Ritman Library
- Snow P (2006) C. P. Snow Christ's College Magazine 231, 67–9
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