Sir John Edwin Sandys FBA (19 May 1844–6 July 1922), was a classical scholar. Events 1535 - French explorer Jacques Cartier sets sail on his second voyage to North America with three ships 110 men and Year 1844 ( MDCCCXLIV) was a Leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Leap year Events 1044 - The Battle of Ménfő takes place 1189 - Richard the Lionheart is crowned King of England Year 1922 ( MCMXXII) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. "Classical literature" redirects here For literature in Classical languages outside the Graeco-Roman sphere see Ancient literature.
He was born at Leicester on 19 May 1844, a son of the Reverend Timothy Sandys of the Church Missionary Society and Rebecca (née Swain). Leicester (ˈlɛstə is the largest city and Unitary authority area in the East Midlands of England, and is the traditional Events 1535 - French explorer Jacques Cartier sets sail on his second voyage to North America with three ships 110 men and Year 1844 ( MDCCCXLIV) was a Leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Leap year The Church Mission Society, known as the Church Missionary Society in Australia and New Zealand is a group of evangelistic societies working with the Anglican Church Living at first in India, he returned to England at the age of eleven, and was educated at the Church Missionary Society School in Islington, then at Repton School. India, officially the Republic of India (भारत गणराज्य inc-Latn Bhārat Gaṇarājya; see also other Indian languages) is a country England is a Country which is part of the United Kingdom. Its inhabitants account for more than 83% of the total UK population whilst its mainland Islington is the central district of the London Borough of Islington. Repton School, founded in 1557, is a British independent public school located in the village of Repton, in Derbyshire, England In 1863 he won a scholarship to St John’s College, Cambridge. A scholarship is an award of access to an institution or a financial aid award for an individual student scholar for the purpose of furthering their Education The city of Cambridge (ˈkeɪmbrɪdʒ is a university town and the administrative centre of the county of Cambridgeshire, England
He obtained a Bell scholarship and won several prizes for Greek and Latin prose. Greek (el ελληνική γλώσσα or simply el ελληνικά — "Hellenic" is an Indo-European language, spoken today by 15-22 million people mainly Latin ( lingua Latīna, laˈtiːna is an Italic language, historically spoken in Latium and Ancient Rome. In 1867 he was elected Fellow at his college, and appointed to a lectureship, then later also 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 Dublin in 1892, Edinburgh in 1909, Athens in 1912 and Oxford in 1920. Dublin (ˈdʌblɨn/ /ˈdʊblɨn or /ˈdʊbəlɪn/, bˠalʲə aːha klʲiəh or cliə(ɸ is both the largest city and capital of Ireland. Edinburgh ( ˈɛdɪnb(ərə Dùn Èideann) is the Capital of Scotland and is its second largest city after Glasgow. Athens (ˈæθənz Αθήνα Athina,) the Capital and largest city of Greece, dominates the Attica periphery as one of the world's Oxford is currently bidding for the 2010 Wikimania Conference Oxford () is a city, and the County town of Oxfordshire, He was made a Fellow of the British Academy in 1909, and a Commander in the Greek Order of the Saviour. The British Academy is the United Kingdom 's National academy for the Humanities and the Social sciences It was established by Royal Charter The Order of the Redeemer ( Τάγμα του Σωτήρος) is an Order (decoration of Greece. He was awarded his knighthood in 1911. Knight is the English term for a social position originating in the Middle Ages.
Besides editing admirably several Greek texts, he published: An Easter Vacation in Greece (1886); a translation and enlargement, with H. Nettleship, of Oskar Seyffert, A Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, Mythology, Religion, Literature, and Art (1891). Henry Nettleship ( May 5, 1839 - July 10, 1893) was an English classical scholar. and The Harvard Lectures on the Revival of Learning (1905). He is best known for the History of Classical Scholarship (volume i, second edition, 1906; volumes ii-iii, 1910). He was supervising editor also of A Companion to Latin Studies (1910; second edition, 1913). [1]
In 1880 he had married Mary Grainger, the daughter of the vicar of St Paul’s Church, Cambridge. In the broadest sense a vicar (from the Latin Vicarius) is a representative anyone acting "in the person of" or agent for a superior They had no children. He died on 6 July 1922 at Cambridge. Events 1044 - The Battle of Ménfő takes place 1189 - Richard the Lionheart is crowned King of England Year 1922 ( MCMXXII) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar.
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