Abraham, Roy Clive, 1890-1963

Roy Clive Abraham, born 6 December 1890, in Melbourne, Australia - died 22 June 1963, Hendon, London, England) was a key figure in African language scholarship during the twentieth century. He worked for over thirty years on a wide range of disparate languages.

From 1923 to 1924 Abraham was at Balliol College, Oxford. He received a first-class honours degree in Arabic and Persian; he asked to be examined in Ethiopic, but no examiner was available. He took a certificate in anthropology from University College, London in 1927, and a diploma in (classical) Arabic from the School of Oriental Studies in 1930.