Daniel Sandford (scholar)

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Sir Daniel Sandford.

Sir Daniel Keyte Sandford MP DCL (3 February 1798 – 4 February 1838) was a Scottish Greek scholar. He stood twice for parliament and briefly sat in the House of Commons from 1834 to 1835.[1]

Early life

Sandford was born at 3 North Castle Street

Edinburgh High School, and afterwards to the University of Edinburgh, where he distinguished himself by his progress in classical learning. In 1813 he was placed under the care and tuition of his godfather, Mr. Keyte, at Runcorn, Cheshire, and remained there for two or three years, pursuing his studies with enthusiasm and success.[1]

In 1817 Sandford was entered as a commoner of

Literae Humaniores, and on 20 October, the same year, he took his degree of B.A. In 1821 he gained the Chancellor’s prize for an English essay on "The Study of Modern History" and on 25 May 1825 he proceeded to the degree of M.A., as a grand compounder.[1]

Sandford was a

Freemason, and in 1818 while at Oxford he became one of the founders of the Apollo University Lodge, the principal masonic lodge for members of Oxford University.[3]

Professor of Greek

The

Greek chair in the University of Glasgow having become vacant, by the death of Professor James Young, Sandford, although an Episcopalian, was, on the recommendation of men of all parties, elected his successor in September 1821, at the early age of 23. In the beginning of the session of that year he entered on the duties, and by his unrivalled skill as a teacher, and the enthusiasm of his classic genius, he soon awakened a love for the study of Greek literature, not only in the University of Glasgow, but throughout Scotland.[1]

During the Catholic emancipation struggle in 1829, Professor Sandford hastened to

King William IV, in consideration of his literary eminence.[1][4]

Member of Parliament

Ambitious of political distinction, on the first election under the Reform Act 1832 of members for Glasgow, in 1832, Sandford was one of six candidates for the representation of that city, on which occasion he was defeated, his name being third on the poll. In 1834 he was elected member for Paisley, and in June that year he took the degree of doctor of civil law. After sitting one session in parliament, ill health induced him to resign his seat, and in the beginning of the following winter he resumed his academic duties.[1]

Death

He died of

Rothesay.[5]

Family

In 1823 Sandford married Henrietta Cecilia Charnock, by whom he had three sons and seven daughters.[6]

Sandford’s eldest son,

Privy Council and in 1862 was appointed by the Commissioners, first as secretary, and then as general manager, of the 1862 International Exhibition. He rose to be Permanent Under-Secretary for Education and in 1891 was given a seat in the House of Lords.[1]

Sandford’s other sons were

Melbourne Exhibition of 1880 and Daniel Sandford (1831–1906), Bishop of Tasmania.[5]

In 1847, Sandford’s daughter Cecilia Catherine Charlotte Sandford, married the Rev. Francis Le Grix White.[6]

Bibliography

Sandford published several elementary works for the use of his class, such as:[7]

  • A translation from the German of Thiersch’s Greek Grammar;
  • Greek Extracts;
  • Introduction to the Writing of Greek;
  • Exercises in Homeric and Attic Greek, &c.

Sandford also contributed various articles to the Edinburgh Review and Blackwood's Magazine. In the latter periodical appeared some of his occasional translations of Greek poetry, as well as several eloquent and interesting papers from his pen, entitled ‘Alcibiades.’[7]

Sandford's most notable production, was an "Essay on the Rise and Progress of Literature", Glasgow, 1847,

The Popular Encyclopedia; or, Conversations Lexicon
.

Notes

  1. ^ a b c d e f g Anderson (1863), p. 403
  2. ^ Williamsons Edinburgh Directory 1798
  3. ^ Possart, Eleanor, ed. (1818–2005). "Catalogue of the Papers of the Apollo University Lodge, 1818-2005". Bodleian Library, University of Oxford. Archived from the original on 4 May 2008. Retrieved 20 October 2018.
  4. ^ "No. 18739". The London Gazette. 29 October 1930. p. 2262.
  5. ^ a b L. G. Pine, ed., The New Extinct Peerage 1884-1971: Containing Extinct, Abeyant, Dormant and Suspended Peerages With Genealogies and Arms (London: Heraldry Today, 1972), p. 246
  6. ^ a b Bernard Burke, A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain (1871), p. 1219
  7. ^ a b Anderson (1863), p. 404

References

  • Anderson, William (1863). The Scottish Nation : Or the Surnames, Families, Literature, Honours and Biographical History of The People of Scotland. Vol. 3. Fullarton. pp. 403, 404.
Attribution
  •  This article incorporates text from The Scottish Nation, by William Anderson, a publication from 1863, now in the public domain in the United States.

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