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GEORGE SANDYS (1578-1644)

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Originally appearing in Volume V24, Page 144 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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GEORGE See also:SANDYS (1578-1644)  , See also:English traveller, colonist and poet, the seventh and youngest son of See also:Edwin See also:Sandys, See also:archbishop of See also:York, was See also:born on the 2nd of See also:March 1578 . He studied at St See also:Mary See also:Hall, See also:Oxford, but took no degree . On his travels, which began in 16ro, he first visited See also:France; from See also:North See also:Italy he passed by way of See also:Venice to See also:Constantinople, and thence to See also:Egypt, Mt . See also:Sinai, See also:Palestine, See also:Cyprus, See also:Sicily, See also:Naples and See also:Rome . His narrative, dedicated, like all his other See also:works, to See also:Charles (either as See also:prince or See also:king), was published in 1615, and formed a substantial contribution to See also:geography and See also:ethnology . He also took See also:great See also:interest in the earliest English colonization in See also:America . In See also:April 1621 he became colonial treasurer of the See also:Virginia See also:Company and sailed to Virginia with his niece's See also:husband, See also:Sir See also:Francis See also:Wyat, the new See also:governor . When Virginia became a See also:crown See also:colony, Sandys was created a member of See also:council in See also:August 1624; he was reappointed to this See also:post in 1626 and 1628 . In 1631 he vainly applied for the secretaryship to the new See also:special See also:commission for the better See also:plantation of Virginia; soon after this he returned to See also:England forgood . In 1621 he had already published an English See also:translation of See also:part of See also:Ovid's Metamorphoses; this he completed in 1626; on this mainly his poetic reputation rested in the 17th and 18th centuries . He also began a version of See also:Virgil's Aeneid, but never produced more than the first See also:book . In 1636 he issued his famous See also:Paraphrase upon the See also:Psalms and See also:Hymns dispersed throughout the Old and New Testaments; in 1640 he translated See also:Christ's See also:Passion from the Latin of See also:Grotius; and in 1641 he brought out his last See also:work, a Paraphrase of the See also:Song of Songs .

He died, unmarried, at Boxley, near See also:

Maidstone, See also:Kent, in 1644 . His See also:verse was deservedly praised by See also:Dryden and See also:Pope; See also:Milton was some-what indebted to Sandys' Hymn to my Redeemer (inserted in his travels at the See also:place of his visit to the See also:Holy See also:Sepulchre) in his See also:Ode on the Passion . See Sandys' works as quoted above; the travels appeared as The Relation of a See also:Journey begun an . Dom . 161o, in four books (1615) ; also the Rev . See also:Richard See also:Hooper's edition, with memoir, of The Poetical Works of See also:George Sandys; and See also:Alexander See also:Brown's See also:Genesis of the See also:United States, pp . 546, 989, 992, 994-995, 1032, 1063; See also:article, " Sandys, George," in See also:Dictionary of See also:National See also:Biography .

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