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Humphry Sandwith

1822–1881 · United Kingdom

Physician. Lived at Wimbledon (Old Manor House). Sibling of Thomas Backhouse Sandwith and Henry Sandwith.

Life and work

  1. 1855
    Medical officer in the Crimean War; humanitarian service during the siege of Kars, honoured by England, France and Russia, making the Sandwith name well known

    Reeve 2021, p. 60-61

  2. 1870
    Kept "reserved and rare specimens" of his brother T. B. Sandwith's Cypriot antiquities at the Old Manor House, Wimbledon; John Holmes of Leeds called on him there after the August 1870 Leeds exhibition of the collection

    WimbledonReeve 2021, p. 88-89

Connections

3 people
Thomas Backhouse SandwithHenry SandwithJohn HolmesHumphry Sandwith
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Colleagues & contacts

Objects

  • Bichrome footed kylix, Cypro-Geometric, with handwritten label "Humphry, Early G.P." under the foot

    Leeds Museums and Galleries LEEDM.D.1988.0005Reeve 2021, p. 88 and Fig. 2.1

Sources

  1. 1.Anna Holly Reeve (2021). “Ancient Cyprus in Leeds: Objects, Networks and Museums from 1870 to 1947”. PhD thesis, University of Leeds.
  2. 2.T. Humphry Ward (1884). Humphry Sandwith: A Memoir. London, Cassell.