Francis Henry Sandbach (23 February 1903 – 18 September 1991), generally known as Harry Sandbach, was a British academic, who held the position of the Professor of Classics at the

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, and a Fellow and Senior Tutor of

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Early years

Francis Henry Sandbach was born in

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, the elder son of Professor Francis Edward Sandbach, then a lecturer in German at the

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, and his wife Ethel Bywater, a teacher. He was educated at

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, where he became

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, and attended

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, where he held the Browne and Craven scholarships in 1923, and was awarded the Chancellor's Medal and the Charles Oldham Classical Scholarship in 1925.

Career

After graduating, he was appointed to an assistant lectureship at the

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from 1926 to 1929. In 1927 he was awarded a fellowship at Trinity College, Cambridge, and in 1929 left Manchester to take up a lectureship at the college. In 1951 he was appointed as the Brereton Reader in Classics, and in 1967 given a professorship, which he held until his retirement in 1970. In 1968, he was made a

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. Within Trinity, he was a tutor from 1945–1952 and senior tutor from 1952–56; in 1940–41 he held the University position of Junior Proctor. During the Second World War, Sandbach served as an

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between 1939 and 1943. He was seconded to the Admiralty in 1943–45, where he worked in the Economic Section of the Topographic Department. Sandbach produced translations of books VII, IX, XI, and XV of

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'', published by the

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, as well as material by

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. In retirement, he published works on Menander, the

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, and Greco-Roman theatre.

Private life

On 9 July 1932 he married the translator Mary Warburton, who he had known since his childhood. Their first child died soon after birth, but they later had a son and a daughter. Mary died in 1990.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Sandbach, Harry 1903 births 1991 deaths Fellows of Trinity College, Cambridge Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge Classical scholars of the University of Cambridge British classical scholars Fellows of the British Academy People educated at King Edward's School, Birmingham