Thomas Collett Sandars (1825–1894) was an English barrister, best known as an editor of the ''

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''.

Life

The eldest son of Samuel Sandars of Lochnere, near

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, he matriculated at

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, on 30 November 1843. He was a scholar there from 1843 to 1849, graduated B.A. in 1848 (having taken first-class honours in literis humanioribus and the chancellor's Latin-verse prize), became fellow of

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in 1849, and proceeded M.A. in 1851. Sandars was

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in 1851, and was reader of constitutional law and history to the

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from 1865 to 1873. He had interests in commerce, in later years, and went twice to Egypt in 1877 and 1880 to represent the Association of Foreign Bondholders. He was also chairman of the Mexican Railway Company. Sandars died on 2 August 1894 at

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Works

Sandars is remembered mainly for his edition of Justinian's ''Institutes'', which first appeared in 1853; it reached an eighth edition in 1888. He was also an early contributor to the '' Saturday Review'', and a close friend of

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. It was in reviewing the novel ''Two Years Ago'' there in 1857 that Sandars coined the phrase "

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Family

Sandars married, on 25 May 1851, Margaret, second daughter of William Hanmer of Bodnod Hall,

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, and left a family.

Notes

Attribution {{DEFAULTSORT:Sandars, Thomas Collett 1825 births 1894 deaths English barristers English male journalists Fellows of Oriel College, Oxford 19th-century English journalists 19th-century English male writers 19th-century English lawyers