Harry Sandbach
Francis Henry Sandbach (23 February 1903 - 18 September 1991) was a British academic, who held the position of the Professor of Classics at the University of Cambridge, and a Fellow and Senior Tutor of Trinity College.
Sandbach was the son of Professor Francis Edward Sandbach, then a lecturer in German at the University of Birmingham.[1]
He was educated at King Edward's School, Birmingham and attended Trinity College, Cambridge, where he held the Browne and Craven scholarships in 1923, and was awarded the Chancellor's Medal and the Charles Oldham Classical Scholarship in 1925.[2]
After graduating, he was appointed to an assistant lectureship at the University of Manchester from 1926 to 1929. In 1927 he was awarded a fellowship at Trinity College, Cambridge, and in 1929 left Manchester to take up a lectureship at the college. In 1951 he was appointed as the Brereton Reader in Classics, and in 1967 given a professorship, which he held until his retirement in 1970. In 1968, he was made a Fellow of the British Academy. Within Trinity, he was a tutor from 1945-1952, and senior tutor from 1952-56, and in 1940-41 he held the University position of Junior Proctor.[2]
Sandbach produced translations of books VII, IX, XI, and XV of Plutarch's Moralia, as well as material by Menander. In retirement, he wrote on Menander, the Stoics, and Greco-Roman theatre.[2]
References
- ^ "SANDBACH, Emeritus Prof. Francis Edward". Who Was Who (Online ed.). A & C Black. 2007.
- ^ a b c "SANDBACH, Prof. (Francis) Henry". Who Was Who (Online ed.). A & C Black. 2007.