Colin Henderson Roberts

Colin Henderson Roberts
Born	8 June 1909  philologist, writer
Employer	Oxford University Press
Awards	Fellow of the British Academy Commander of the Order of the British Empire

Colin Henderson Roberts

Roberts was born on 8 June 1909 in Queen Elizabeth Walk, Stoke Newington, London. His elder brother, Brian Richard Roberts, was later the editor of The Sunday Telegraph. He was educated at Merchant Taylors' School and St John's College, Oxford, where he read Classics, taking Firsts in both Honour Moderations and literae humaniores and was elected to the Craven University Fellowship. In 1934 he was elected a Junior Research Fellow at St John's, and remained a fellow there until 1976.^[1]

Under the influence of his tutors, Roberts became interested in

In 1954 Roberts succeeded A. L. P. Norrington as Secretary to the Delegates of Oxford University Press, holding the post until 1974.^[1] During his tenure he oversaw the publication of the New English Bible.

Awards

He was appointed

Roberts was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1947, but resigned (along with his friend T. C. Skeat) in 1979, in protest against its decision not to expel the traitor Anthony Blunt from the fellowship.

Works

• Manuscript, Society and Belief in Early Christian Egypt, C. H. Roberts, Hon. D. Litt., 1977.
• Birth of the Codex, by Colin Henderson Roberts, Theodore Cressy Skeat, 1954.
• Two Biblical Papyri in the John Rylands Library, Manchester, 1936.
• The Antinoopolis Papyri ... Edited with translations and notes,1950, by C. H. Robers, etc. With plates, by John Wintour Baldwin Barns, Colin Henderson Roberts
• Oxford Palaeographical Handbooks, 1955. General editors: R. W. Hunt, C. H. Roberts, F. Wormald

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