For the British diplomat and politician, see George Sandys (politician).
George Sandys
Portrait of George Sandys
Born
1578
Bishopsthorpe, England
Died
1644
Boxley, England
Nationality
English
Occupation(s)
author, traveller, colonist, poet, translator
Years active
1610-1640
Notable work
Translations of Ovid's Metamorphoses and the Passion of Jesus
George Sandys (/sændz/ "sands"; 2 March 1578[1] – March 1644) was an English traveller, colonist, poet, and translator.[2] He was known for his translations of Ovid's Metamorphoses and the Passion of Jesus, as well as his travel narratives of the Eastern Mediterranean region, which formed a substantial contribution to geography and ethnology.
^Sandys, George, in: Encyclopædia Britannica online.
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on which they likewise frequently bestow considerable donations". GeorgeSandys, who visited Alexandria in 1610, was reportedly shown a sepulchre there...
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African, report having seen Alexander's tomb. Leo the African in 1491 and GeorgeSandys in 1611 reportedly saw the tomb in Alexandria. According to one legend...
couplets of iambic heptameter. The next significant translation was by GeorgeSandys, produced from 1621 to 1626, which set the poem in heroic couplets,...
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there for the same end – and this is the punishment for man-slaughter. GeorgeSandys, however, during the same period, tells of a method as no longer in...
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December 1963 to the Conservative MP Piers Dixon and the artist Edwina Sandys. The couple divorced in 1970 when Dixon was six. Dixon has an older brother...
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wife Mary, Marchioness of Downshire, granddaughter of the 1st Baron Sandys. Lord George was born three months after his father's death by suicide. He entered...
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