John Sandys (classicist)

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Sir
John Sandys
epigrapher
  • scholar
  • writer
    • Title
  • orator emeritus
    • Spouse
    Mary Grainger Hall
    ​
    (m. 1880)​
    AwardsKnight Bachelor (1911)
    Academic background
    Education
    Alma materSt John's College, Cambridge
    Academic work
    DisciplineClassics
    InstitutionsUniversity of Cambridge

    Sir John Edwin Sandys

    classical scholar.[1]

    Life

    Born in Leicester, England on 19 May 1844, Sandys was the 4th son of Rev. Timothy Sandys (1803–1871)[2] and Rebecca Swain (1800–1853). Living at first in India, Sandys returned to England at the age of eleven and was educated at the Church Missionary Society College, Islington, then at Repton School. In 1863, he won a scholarship to St John's College, Cambridge.[3]

    On 17 August 1880, John married Mary Grainger Hall (1855–1937), daughter of Rev. Henry Hall (1820–1897),

    bequest to the Museum of Classical Archaeology, Cambridge
    (founded in 1884), which was the basis of a fund known as the Museum of Classical Archaeology Endowment Fund. John and Mary had no children.

    Sandys died on 6 July 1922 in Cambridge. He is buried in the

    Parish of the Ascension Burial Ground
    in Cambridge.

    Works

    Besides editing several Greek texts, Sandys published: An Easter Vacation in Greece (1886);

    Macmillan & Co. published the Latin speeches and letters that he gave as a public orator at the University of Cambridge from 1876 to 1909.[7] He was also supervising editor of A Companion to Latin Studies (1910; 2nd ed., 1913).[6]

    Recognition

    Sandys obtained a Bell Scholarship and won several prizes for

    Order of the Saviour
    . He was knighted in 1911.

    References

    1. ISBN 978-1-107-68163-7
      .
    2. Church Missionary Society, which sent him to India, where he worked as a missionary for 41 years. Before his death, he returned to England, where he died in Sleaford, Lincolnshire. He is buried in St. Michael and All Angels Churchyard, Billinghay, North Kesteven District, Lincolnshire, England. Timothy's 1st wife was Rebecca Swain (1800 – 20 March 1853), whom he married on 26 December 1829 in St Margaret's Church, Leicester
      , Leicestershire, England. She died in Calcutta, India. His 2nd wife, whom he married in 1854, was Emily Guthrie Stuart (6 December 1825 – 3 December 1902). Emily was born in Scotland.
    3. ^ "Sandys, John Edwin (SNDS863JE)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
    4. ^ Rev. Henry Hall (1820 – 23 June 1897) - Magdalene College, Cambridge University, B.A. (1841), M.A. (1844); Fellow of Magdalene College (1841–1845); ordained a deacon (1842) and priest (1845); domestic (private) chaplain (1842–1844) to William John Monson, 6th Baron Monson of Burton (1796–1862); headmaster of St Albans School, Hertfordshire (1845–1862); vicar of St. Paul's Church, Cambridge (1862–1890). In 1871 he became a Select Governor of Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge. On 26 June 1849, Henry married Elizabeth Stevens at Wisbech, Cambridgeshire. Elizabeth was the daughter of William Stevens, who was mayor of Wisbech in 1845–1846 and 1848. Henry died in Cambridge.
    5. ^ "mini-review of An Easter Vacation in Greece". The Athenaeum (3112): 797. 18 June 1887.
    6. ^
      ISBN 978-1-108-02709-0
      .
    7. S2CID 3975449
      .
    8. ^ British Academy Fellowship record Archived 2011-06-06 at the Wayback Machine

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