- Samuel Sandars
Samuel Sandars (25 April 1837,
Chelmsford ,Essex - 15 June 1894Obituary, "The Library", Vol. s1-6, No. 1, 1894, p. 289] ) was a English bibliographer, barrister and university benefactor.Samuel Sanders was the only son of George Sandars, MP for Wakefield. He was educated at Harrow and
Trinity College, Cambridge , where he took his BA degree in 1860 and became MA in 1863. Admited to theInner Temple in 1859, Sandars was called to the Bar in 1863. [Venn, J. A., "Alumni Cantabrigienses ", Part II Vol. V, p. 411] In July 1863 Sandars married Elizabeth Maria, eldest daughter ofFrancis William Russell , MP for Limerick. ["Gentleman's Magazine , vol. 215, 1863, p. 236]Sandars was a Fellow of the
Royal Geographical Society , a Fellow of theRoyal Historical Society , a member of the Library Association and a member of theBibliographical Society . He became JP forBuckinghamshire , and shortly before his death in 1894High Sheriff of Buckinghamshire .From 1869 onwards Sandars donated rare books to
Cambridge University Library ; he bequeathed 1,460 printed books to the library on his death. [ [http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/deptserv/rarebooks/directory.html#sand Collections Directory] ] [Fabian, Bernhard, "Handbuch deutscher historischer Buchbestände in Europa", 1997, p. 178] He was also a benefactor to theFitzwilliam Museum ,Great St Mary's Church and the Divinity School in Cambridge, [Rupp, Gordon, 'A Cambridge Centenary: The Selwyn Divinity School. 1879-1979', "The Historical Journal" 24:2 (1981). p. 426] and bequeathed £2000 toCambridge University to endow the Sandars Readership in Bibliography for the delivery of one or more lectures annually on "Bibliography, Palaeography, Typography, Bookbinding, Book Illustration, the science of Books and Manuscripts and the Arts relating thereto." [Clark, J. W., "Endowments of the University of Cambridge", 1904]References
Further reading
*"The Cambridge Review", 1894
External links
* [http://www.sandars.org.uk/SandarsCenturies/Tree4.htm Sandars family tree]
* [http://www.archiveshub.ac.uk/cgi-bin/deadsearch.cgi?serverid=VSPOKES-ead-camunilib&bool=AND&numreq=1&fieldcont1=870&format=full&fieldidx1=docid&scanposition=middle&firstrec=1&noframes=on Samuel Sandars: Book Lists and Cambridge Miscellanea] at Cambridge University Library
* [http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/sandars/ The Sandars Readership in Bibliography]
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