| 词条 | Martin Charlesworth |
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He was born in Eastham, then in Cheshire, the son of Rev Ambrose Charlesworth, the curate of the parish, and Alice Whish. He was educated at Birkenhead School and Jesus College, Cambridge, where he was a Rustat Scholar. He served as an officer in the Egyptian Labour Corps in the Middle East during the First World War. He was placed in the first division of the first class in part one of the Classical Tripos 1920 and in first class in part two in 1921 with distinction in Ancient History.[1] He became a visiting fellow of Princeton (1921-1922) before becoming a fellow of Jesus College in 1921 and then at St John's College, Cambridge (1923-1931). He was appointed to the Laurence Readership in Classics in 1931. In 1927 he was appointed editor of the multi-volume Cambridge Ancient History until its publication in 1932. He was elected President of St John's in 1937. Owen Chadwick described Charlesworth as "a wonderful teacher; a rip-roaring man, full of go and humour, and generosity".[2] He was ordained in 1940, but held no post in the Church. He received honorary degrees from the University of Wales and the University of Bordeaux.[1] During the Second World War he was an active recruiter of talent for code-breakers to be sent to Bletchley Park[3] He died in Leeds in 1950 following a heart attack following an expedition to Hadrian's Wall.[4] Publications
References1. ^1 2 {{Cite book|title=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography|publisher=Oxford University Press|first=FE Adcock|last=MH Crawford}} 2. ^{{cite web|title=Videoed interview of Owen Chadwick|url=http://www.alanmacfarlane.com/DO/filmshow/chadwick1_fast.htm|accessdate=18 December 2013}} 3. ^{{cite book|title=Codebreakers: The Inside Story of Bletchley Park|first=FH Hinsley|last=Alan Stripp|year=2001|publisher=Oxford University Press}} 4. ^{{cite book|title=The Secularization of the European Mind in the Nineteenth Century|first=Owen|last=Chadwick|publisher=Cambridge University Press|year=1990}} Categories{{Authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Charlesworth, Martin}} 6 : 1895 births|1950 deaths|People educated at Birkenhead School|Alumni of Jesus College, Cambridge|Fellows of Jesus College, Cambridge|Fellows of St John's College, Cambridge |
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