Samuel Sandars (25 April 1837,

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- 15 June 1894Obituary, ''The Library'', Vol. s1-6, No. 1, 1894, p. 289) was an English bibliographer, barrister and university benefactor. He was educated at Harrow and

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, where he took his BA degree in 1860 and became MA in 1863. Admitted to the

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in 1859, Sandars was called to the Bar in 1863. In July 1863 Sandars married Elizabeth Maria, eldest daughter of Francis William Russell, MP for

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. Sandars was a Fellow of the

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, a Fellow of the

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, a member of the

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and a member of the

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. He became JP for

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, and shortly before his death in 1894 High Sheriff of Buckinghamshire. From 1869 onwards Sandars donated rare books to

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; he bequeathed 1,460 printed books to the library on his death. He was also a benefactor to the

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, Great St Mary's Church and the

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in Cambridge. Nigel Morgan lectured on "Sandars as a collector of illuminated manuscripts" as the 2014 Sandars Lecturer. Sandars bequeathed £2000 to

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to endow the Sandars Readership in Bibliography for the delivery of one or more lectures annually on "Bibliography, Palaeography, Typography, Bookbinding, Book Illustration, the science of Books and Manuscripts and the Arts relating thereto." A checklist of the Sandars Lectures from 1894 to 1983 by David McKitterick was published in 1983. McKitterick, David. 1983. ''The Sandars and Lyell Lectures: A Checklist with an Introduction.'' New York: Jonathan A. Hill.

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Sandars family treeSamuel Sandars: Book Lists and Cambridge Miscellanea
at Cambridge University Library
The Sandars Readership in Bibliography
{{DEFAULTSORT:Sandars, Samuel 1837 births 1894 deaths English philanthropists High sheriffs of Buckinghamshire Members of the Inner Temple People educated at Harrow School Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge English bibliographers English book and manuscript collectors 19th-century British philanthropists 19th-century English lawyers

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