Philip Sandford, Professor of Latin

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Depiction

A man with moustache, with tie and a jacket buttoned up fairly close to the neck

Description

Philip Sandford, born in Clonmel, son of a Church of Ireland clergyman, went to Trinity College Dublin where he distinguished himself in Classics, English and Metaphysics. Then, he spent some time in South Africa (Keaveney, 1999). He became Professor of Latin in Queens College Galway (Q.C.G.) in 1890. Some of his research publications are quoted by Keaveney. He was skilful in playing tennis, having being tennis champion in Natal, South Africa and became tennis champion at Q.C.G. as well. He was also a keen supporter and member of the Debating Society. He contracted rheumatic fever in July 1903 (Q.C.G. Magazine, 1903) and died on 2 Aug., of the same year, aged 48 years (irishgenealogy_1903). His obituary appeared in a Supplement to Q.C.G. magazine (Q.C.G., Nov.,1903). His picture is reproduced from that magazine issue.

People

Philip Sandford

References

Supplement to Q.C.G. Magazine, Nov. 1903, pp 4-8.
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/deaths_returns/deaths_1903/05654/4591948.pdf.
Arthur Keaveney, 'Classics in Victorian Galway' in Tadhg Foley (ed.), From Queen’s College to National University (Dublin, 1999), pp 341-2

Contributor

Stephen G. Jennings

Bibliographic Citation

S.G. Jennings, ‘Philip Sandford, Professor of Latin’, Visual History Retired Staff Collection, University of Galway Digital Collections, Asset Id 14880, Archival Record Id VHRS

Spatial Coverage

Unidentified

Temporal Coverage

1890s probably

Period

1890s

Subject

University of Galway

Academic disciplines

Linguistics

Keywords

Latin

tennis

Language

English

Publisher

University of Galway Library

Rights

This image may be used for non-commercial purposes under CC BY-NC-SA
see https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/

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