John Sandsbury or Sansbury (1576–1610) was an English cleric and Latin poet.

Life

Sandsbury was admitted at Merchant Taylors' School in May 1587, and matriculated, aged 17, as scholar of

St John's College, Oxford St John's College is a constituent college of the University of Oxford. Founded as a men's college in 1555, it has been coeducational since 1979.Communication from Michael Riordan, college archivist Its founder, Sir Thomas White, intended to pro ...

, 6 July 1593. In 1596 he was elected to one of the exhibitions given by St Paul's School for the support of poor scholars at the university. He graduated B.A. in 1597, M.A. in 1601, B.D. in 1608. In 1607 Sandsbury became vicar of

St Giles' Church, Oxford St. Giles' Church is a church in North Oxford, England. It is at the northern end of the wide thoroughfare of St Giles', at the point where it meets Woodstock Road and Banbury Road. It stands between where Little Clarendon Street joins Woo ...

. He died in January 1610, and was buried in his church.

Works

In 1608 Sandsbury published Latin hexameters, entitled ''Ilium in Italiam. Oxonia ad Protectionem Regis sui omnium optimi filia, pedisequa'', Oxford. The dedication to James I shows that the poems were written in 1606. Each page contains the arms of one of the colleges, and beneath are nine hexameters giving an explanation of them, and containing a compliment to the king. He also wrote verses in the university collection on the death of Elizabeth, and Latin tragedies, which were performed by the scholars of the college at Christmas. For

Matthew Gwinne Matthew Gwinne (1558? – 1627) was an English physician. Life He was of Welsh descent, son of Edward Gwinne, grocer, and was born in London. On 28 April 1570 he entered Merchant Taylors' School. He was elected to a scholarship at St John ...

's play ''Nero'', Sandsbury wrote a Latin

commendatory poem The epideictic oratory, also called ceremonial oratory, or praise-and-blame rhetoric, is one of the three branches, or "species" (eidē), of rhetoric as outlined in Aristotle's ''Rhetoric'', to be used to praise or blame during ceremonies. Origin ...

, dedicated to

Justus Lipsius Justus Lipsius (Joest Lips or Joost Lips; 18 October 1547 – 23 March 1606) was a Flemish Catholic philologist, philosopher, and humanist. Lipsius wrote a series of works designed to revive ancient Stoicism in a form that would be compatible w ...

. He claimed superiority of Gwinne's work, in relation to the classical '' Octavia'', and the works by

Theodor Beza Theodore Beza ( la, Theodorus Beza; french: Théodore de Bèze or ''de Besze''; June 24, 1519 – October 13, 1605) was a French Calvinist Protestant theologian, reformer and scholar who played an important role in the Protestant Reformatio ...

George Buchanan George Buchanan ( gd, Seòras Bochanan; February 1506 – 28 September 1582) was a Scottish historian and humanist scholar. According to historian Keith Brown, Buchanan was "the most profound intellectual sixteenth century Scotland produced." ...

and

William Gager William Gager (1555–1622) was an English jurist, now known for his Latin dramas. William Gager was the son of Gilbert Gager and Thomasina Cordell Gager. He was educated at Westminster School and Christ Church, Oxford. His works were produced at ...

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