Martin Percival Charlesworth (18 January 1895 – 26 October 1950) was a classical scholar. He was born in Eastham, then in

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, the son of Rev Ambrose Charlesworth, the curate of the parish, and Alice Whish. He was educated at

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and

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, where he was a Rustat Scholar. He served as an officer in the

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in the Middle East during the

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. He was placed in the first division of the first class in part one of the

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1920 and in first class in part two in 1921 with distinction in Ancient History. He became a visiting fellow of

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(1921–1922) before becoming a fellow of Jesus College in 1921 and then at

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(1923–1931). He was appointed to the Laurence Readership in Classics in 1931. In 1927 he was appointed editor of the multi-volume ''

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'' until its publication in 1932. He was elected President of St John's in 1937.

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. He received honorary degrees from the

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and the

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. During the

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he was an active recruiter of talent for code-breakers to be sent to

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and for classicists to be sent to the Bedford Japanese School for training as Japanese cryptographers. He died in Leeds in 1950 after a heart attack following an expedition to

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Publications

* ''Trade Routes and Commerce in the Roman Empire'' (Cambridge, Eng.: University Press,1924) (also translated into French & Italian) * ''Five Men : Character Studies from the Roman Empire'' (Cambridge, MA: Harvard, 1936) * ''The Virtues of a Roman Emperor : Propaganda and the Creation of Belief'', (London: Milford, 1937) * ''Documents Illustrating the Reigns of Claudius and Nero'' (Cambridge, Eng.: University Press, 1939) * ''The Lost Province, or The Worth of Britain'' (Cardiff, Wales: University of Wales Press, 1949)

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