Harry Sandbach

Francis Henry Sandbach (23 February 1903 – 18 September 1991), generally known as Harry Sandbach, was a British academic, who held the position of the Professor of Classics at the University of Cambridge, and a Fellow and Senior Tutor of Trinity College.

Early years Francis Henry Sandbach was born in Edgbaston, the elder son of Professor Francis Edward Sandbach, then a lecturer in German at the University of Birmingham, and his wife Ethel Bywater, a teacher.

Career After graduating, he was appointed to an assistant lectureship at the University of Manchester from 1926 to 1929. In 1927 he was awarded a fellowship at Trinity College, Cambridge, and in 1929 left Manchester to take up a lectureship at the college. In 1951 he was appointed as the Brereton Reader in Classics, and in 1967 given a professorship, which he held until his retirement in 1970. In 1968, he was made a Fellow of the British Academy. Within Trinity, he was a tutor from 1945 to 1952 and senior tutor from 1952 to 1956; in 1940–41 he held the university position of Junior Proctor.

Sandbach produced translations of books VII, IX, XI, and XV of Plutarch's Moralia, published by the Loeb Classical Library,