Sir John Edwin Sandys ( "Sands"; 19 May 1844 – 6 July 1922) was an English

classical scholar Classics, also classical studies or Ancient Greek and Roman studies, is the study of classical antiquity. In the Western world, ''classics'' traditionally refers to the study of Ancient Greek literature, Ancient Greek and Roman literature and ...

Life

Born in

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, England on 19 May 1844, Sandys was the 4th son of Rev. Timothy Sandys (1803–1871) 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 St John's College, formally the College of St John the Evangelist in the University of Cambridge, is a Colleges of the University of Cambridge, constituent college of the University of Cambridge, founded by the House of Tudor, Tudor matriarch L ...

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

vicar A vicar (; Latin: '' vicarius'') is a representative, deputy or substitute; anyone acting "in the person of" or agent for a superior (compare "vicarious" in the sense of "at second hand"). Linguistically, ''vicar'' is cognate with the English p ...

of St Paul's Church in Cambridge. Mary was born in St. Albans, Hertfordshire, England, and she died in Vevey, Switzerland, where she was a resident of the Hotel du Lac at the time of her death. She made a 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); a translation and enlargement (with H. Nettleship) of Oskar Seyffert's ''A Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, Mythology, Religion, Literature and Art'' (1891); and ''The Harvard Lectures on the Revival of Learning'' (1905). He is best known, however, for his ''A History of Classical Scholarship'' (Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press) (3 vols.) (vol. 1, 1903; vols. 2 and 3, 1908). In 1910, Macmillan & Co. published the Latin speeches and letters that he gave as a public orator at the University of Cambridge from 1876 to 1909. He was also supervising editor of ''A Companion to Latin Studies'' (1910; 2nd ed., 1913).

Recognition

Sandys obtained a Bell Scholarship and won several prizes for Greek and

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prose. In 1867, he was elected Fellow at his college and was appointed to a lectureship, then later a tutorship. He was elected public orator in 1876 and was given the title ''orator emeritus'' when he retired in 1919. He was awarded honorary doctorates from the universities of

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(1892),

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(1909),

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(1912) and

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(1920). He was made a Fellow of the

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(1909)British Academy Fellowship record
and a Commander in the Greek Order of the Saviour. He was knighted in 1911.

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