194:, Allberry's translation successfully realised the "lyrical character" of the material. I. M. F. Gardner and S. N. C. Lieu considered in 1996 that the translation was "rightly hailed as a literary as well as a philological triumph"; they also note that Allberry's English translation made this text the most famous of the Medinet Madi Manichaean manuscripts among the English-speaking research community. Allberry continued to work on the remaining 155 leaves of the psalm book for the remainder of his life.
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refutes the notions that
Allberry was a Nazi sympathiser and subject to bouts of depression. J. Neville Birdsall writes that the Calvert's depicted promiscuity was not a reflection of Allberry, and that the portrayal distressed Allberry's widow and son. Patricia Allberry (under her later married name
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To have deciphered 230 pages of papyrus where many of them ... still show but a minority of indubitable letters, would in itself be a remarkable performance; to have produced plausible, often ingenious translations from such ruined materials, where lack of context and strangeness of subject-matter
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While the physical description of Roy
Calvert was very like my husband, as were his gaiety and charm, liveliness, brilliance and kindness; the manic-depressions, the immorality, the baiting of others, the pro-Nazism, and the final despairing act of joining the Air Force as an attempt at possible
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Allberry was described in 1995 as "the golden boy of his generation" at
Cambridge, "brilliant at everything" that he attempted. He was an active sportsman, as a cricketer displaying "much praised elegance as a batsman", and winning a
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127:(1936–39). Before the outbreak of war, he spent time as a researcher in Germany and elsewhere in Continental Europe, receiving a travel grant from the Lady Wallis Budge Fund in 1938. He collaborated with
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might well have discouraged more experienced scholars, is an achievement on which Mr. Allberry—whose first publication this is—deserves our congratulations and our thanks.
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in 1911, to Hilda and
William Harry Allberry. His background was middle-class, his father being a manager, perhaps in the insurance industry. He attended
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I. M. F. Gardner, S. N. C. Lieu (1996). From
Narmouthis (Medinet Madi) to Kellis (Ismant El-Kharab): Manichaean Documents from Roman Egypt.
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sense", who could display "reckless, crazily joyous dare-devilry". He was Anglo-Catholic and converted to Roman
Catholicism while in the
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Allberry compiled a Coptic dictionary, unfinished at his death, and contributed to Crum's dictionary. He published several short
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Thomas Henry Webb were found at the wreckage, the former dead, the latter alive, but fatally wounded. Allberry is buried at
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in
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Allberry is often considered the model for the character Roy Calvert in
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manuscripts into English, particularly from the Sub-Akhmimic dialect of
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CA Charles Robert Cecil Augustine Allberry (1911–43), Egyptologist
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Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland
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in the Second World War and was shot down and killed in 1943.
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Patricia K. G. Lewis (E. and L. Plumridge, Cambridge, 1984)
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559:(September 1987). Charles Allberry and Roy Calvert.
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Flying Officer Charles Robert Cecil Austin Allberry
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A New Orientation: the Origins of a Faculty Library
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223:Personal life, Second World War service and death
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648:Psaumes des errants. Ecrits manichéens du Fayyūm
32:(9 November 1911 – 3 April 1943) was an English
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56:(1947). Allberry served in the
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743:Sarvar Khambatta (1987).
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605:A Manichaean Psalm-Book
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607:by C. R. C. Allberry.
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380:References
368:John Plumb
336:C. P. Snow
313:air gunner
238:John Plumb
234:C. P. Snow
179:W. E. Crum
149:Manichaean
106:W. E. Crum
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769:The Times
562:Encounter
320:Eindhoven
309:Navigator
230:half blue
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