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Dr Sarah Joanne <I>Quinn</I> Clackson

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Dr Sarah Joanne Quinn Clackson

Birth
Leicester, Leicester Unitary Authority, Leicestershire, England
Death
10 Aug 2003 (aged 37)
Cambridge, City of Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England
Burial
Cambridge, City of Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England Add to Map
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Coptologist. PhD at University College London was completed in four years, in 1996, resulting in her first major book, Coptic and Greek texts Relating to the Hermopolite Monastery of Apa Apollo (2000). At the same time, she was working as Project Officer for the Manichaean Documentation Centre based first at the Institute of Classical Studies, London, and then at Warwick University; The Dictionary of Manichaean Texts, volume i, Texts from the Roman Empire (1998), bears her name among its authors, as does The Elephantine Papyri in English (1996).

Sarah was a Fellow of both Girton and Christ's colleges; she held the Eugénie Strong Fellowship in Arts at Girton College, (1996–98) and the Lady Wallis Budge Fellowship in Egyptology at Christ's College, Cambridge (from 1998).

She was diagnosed with cancer in 1998 and died peacefully at home at 3.00 p.m. on Sunday August 10th, 2003; she was cremated at Cambridge Crematorium after a service at West Chapel at 12.45 p.m. on Tuesday 19th August, 2003.

She was married to Dr. James Clackson, currently Secretary of the Friends of The Parish of Ascension Burial Ground, Cambridge, who has since re-married.
Coptologist. PhD at University College London was completed in four years, in 1996, resulting in her first major book, Coptic and Greek texts Relating to the Hermopolite Monastery of Apa Apollo (2000). At the same time, she was working as Project Officer for the Manichaean Documentation Centre based first at the Institute of Classical Studies, London, and then at Warwick University; The Dictionary of Manichaean Texts, volume i, Texts from the Roman Empire (1998), bears her name among its authors, as does The Elephantine Papyri in English (1996).

Sarah was a Fellow of both Girton and Christ's colleges; she held the Eugénie Strong Fellowship in Arts at Girton College, (1996–98) and the Lady Wallis Budge Fellowship in Egyptology at Christ's College, Cambridge (from 1998).

She was diagnosed with cancer in 1998 and died peacefully at home at 3.00 p.m. on Sunday August 10th, 2003; she was cremated at Cambridge Crematorium after a service at West Chapel at 12.45 p.m. on Tuesday 19th August, 2003.

She was married to Dr. James Clackson, currently Secretary of the Friends of The Parish of Ascension Burial Ground, Cambridge, who has since re-married.

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  • Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/34878040/sarah_joanne-clackson: accessed ), memorial page for Dr Sarah Joanne Quinn Clackson (11 Dec 1965–10 Aug 2003), Find a Grave Memorial ID 34878040, citing Ascension Parish Burial Ground, Cambridge, City of Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England; Maintained by stevenkh1 (contributor 47175148).