Charles Allberry

Charles Robert Cecil Augustine Allberry (9 November 1911 – 3 April 1943) was an English Egyptologist and Coptic scholar. His background was middle-class, his father being a manager, perhaps in the insurance industry. He attended St Dunstan's College, Catford and then went up to Christ's College, Cambridge,

Allberry become a fellow of Christ's in 1935, and was the college's inaugural Lady Budge Fellow (1936–39).

According to Theodor Harmsen of the Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica, 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.

Allberry compiled a Coptic dictionary, unfinished at his death, In 1949, several years after his death, the library of the Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Cambridge, acquired part of his library, including unpublished manuscripts. According to the Faculty of Oriental Studies, Allberry "did much to further the study of Coptic in Cambridge". He was an active sportsman, as a cricketer displaying "much praised elegance as a batsman", He was Anglo-Catholic and converted to Roman Catholicism while in the Royal Air Force, adding the name "Augustine". They had a son, David Allberry is buried at Eindhoven (Woensel) General Cemetery, in the Netherlands. although Calvert is a scholar of Manichaean Sogdian, rather than Coptic. Patricia Allberry (under her later married name of Lewis) published a memoir of Allberry in 1984, containing her own recollections as well as those of John Plumb (the former Master of Christ's College) and others.