Christmas Carols and Their Stories
Puzzle 26 · Collectors and the Carol Revival · Page 44 in print
William Sandys
William Sandys studied the cello under Robert Lindley and is best remembered for his share in Sandys and Forster’s History of the Violin (1864). His first book was a history of freemasonry.
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Antiquary
Sandys’s calling as a scholar of the past, fellow of the Society of Antiquaries.
Broadside
A single printed sheet of verse, the form in which Sandys bought street carols.
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Chapmen
The dealers in cheap print for whom London carols were still printed.
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Christmastide
Sandys’s 1852 book on the history, festivities and carols of Christmas.
Crane Court
The Fleet Street court where Sandys was born in 1792.
Fleet Street
The London street off which Sandys was born.
Forster
Sandys’s co-author on the History of the Violin (1864).
Freemasonry
The subject of Sandys’s first book, a history published in 1829.
Gray's Inn
Gray’s Inn Square, where Sandys headed the firm of Sandys and Knott.
Kensal Green
The London cemetery where Sandys was buried in 1874.
Piccadilly
The London street of Richard Beckley, publisher of Sandys’s 1833 carols.
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Robert Lindley
The cellist who taught Sandys.
Seven Dials
The London district where Pitts printed penny carol sheets that Sandys collected.
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Solicitor
Sandys’s profession from 1814.
Violoncello
The instrument Sandys studied as a young amateur.
Sources
- Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900: Sandys, William (1792-1874)Dictionary of National Biography, vol. 50 (1897), ‘Sandys, William (1792–1874)’ by Henry Davey; Wikisource transcription
- Christmas carols, ancient and modern; including the most popular in the west of England, and the airs to which they are sung. Also specimens of French provincial carols. With an introduction and notes : Sandys, William, 1792-1874William Sandys, Christmas Carols, Ancient and Modern (London: Richard Beckley, 1833); Internet Archive scan