Sandby, George, Dd

Sandby, George, D.D.

a Church of England divine, was born about 1717, and was educated at Merton College, Oxford, where he took the degree of M.A. in 1740, and afterwards was master of Magdalen College, Cambridge, where he took his degree of D.D. in 1760. He was collated to the rectorship of Denton, Norfolk, in 1750, and to the chancellorship of Norwich in 1768. He died at Denton, April 29, 1807. See (Lond.) Annual Registe,1807, page 571.