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

classical scholar Classics or classical studies is the study of classical antiquity. In the Western world, classics traditionally refers to the study of Classical Greek and Roman literature and their related original languages, Ancient Greek and Latin. Classics ...

Life

Born in Leicester, 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 The Church Missionary Society Training College in Islington, north London was founded in 1820 to prepare Anglican missionaries of the Church Missionary Society for work overseas. Prior to the establishment of the College the CMS missionaries re ...

, then at

Repton School Repton School is a 13–18 co-educational, independent, day and boarding school in the English public school tradition, in Repton, Derbyshire, England. Sir John Port of Etwall, on his death in 1557, left funds to create a grammar school whi ...

. In 1863, he won a scholarship to St John's College, Cambridge. On 17 August 1880, John married Mary Grainger Hall (1855–1937), daughter of Rev. Henry Hall (1820–1897), vicar of St Paul's Church in Cambridge. Mary was born in St. Albans, Hertfordshire, England, and she died in Vevey, Switzerland, where at the time of her death she was a resident of the Hotel du Lac. 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 Ascension Parish Burial Ground, Cambridge, 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 Henry Nettleship, H. Nettleship) of Oskar Seyffert (classical scholar), 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). 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 language, Greek and Latin language, Latin prose. In 1867, he was elected Fellow at his college and was appointed to a lectureship, then later also a tutorship. He was elected Cambridge University Orator, 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 Dublin (1892), Edinburgh (1909), Athens (1912) and Oxford (1920). He was made a Fellow of the British Academy (1909)British Academy Fellowship record
and a Commander in the Greek Order of the Saviour. He was knighted in 1911.

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