Arthur Lindsay Sadler

Arthur Lindsay Sadler (1882–1970) was Professor of Oriental Studies at the University of Sydney.

Life and career Sadler was born in Hackney, London and educated at the University of Oxford (B.A., 1908; M.A., 1911). He also taught at the Royal Military College of Australia. and, when in 1936 the latter was appointed the first head of the Department of Old Testament Language and Literature at the University of Sydney, one of four departments offering courses for the new Bachelorate of Divinity there, Sadler assisted in lecturing duties and in other ways.

After retirement from the University of Sydney (his successors in the professorship being John Kennedy Rideout in 1948 Sadler returned to England and settled in the Essex village of Great Bardfield. At Bardfield he became friendly with several of the Great Bardfield Artists. He spent his final years living in Stubbards Croft in Great Bardfield and later at Buck's House in the same village.

Personal life In 1916, he married Eva Botan Seymour (1893-1978), an Anglo-Japanese, in Tokyo. They would have no children.