SANDYS, GEORGE (1578-1644)

—Traveller and translator, s. of an Archbishop of York, b. at Bishops thorpe, and ed. at Oxf., is one of the best of the earlier travellers, learned, observant, and truth-loving. He pub. in 1615 an account of his journeys in the East which was highly popular. He also translated when in America the Metamorphoses of Ovid, produced a metrical Paraphrase on the Psalms , with music by Henry Lawes, and another on the Canticles, and wrote Christ's Pa ion , a tragedy. He held various public offices, chiefly in connection with the colony of Virginia.