Thomas Backhouse Sandwith C. B.

Born: 10 Mar 1831, London, London, England
Christened: 13 Mar 1831, Bridlington, Yorkshire, England
Marriage (1): Clara Agnes Fuller on 18 Dec 1865 in Christ Church, Ramsgate, Kent, England
Died: 24 Apr 1900, Nutfield, Surrey, England aged 69

Family Links

Spouses/Children:

1. Clara Agnes Fuller

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bullet Birth Notes:

http://johnmadjackfuller.homestead.com/fullerfam/pafg237.html

bullet Christening Notes:

http://johnmadjackfuller.homestead.com/fullerfam/pafg237.html

bullet Death Notes:

http://johnmadjackfuller.homestead.com/fullerfam/pafg237.html

And

http://interactive.ancestry.co.uk/1904/32858_625988_3345-00013/17467686?backurl=http%3a%2f%2fsearch.ancestry.co.uk%2fcgi-bin%2fsse.dll%3frank%3d1%26new%3d1%26MSAV%3d1%26msT%3d1%26gss%3dangs-g%26gsfn%3dthomas%2bbackhouse%26gsfn_x%3dXO%26gsln%3dsandwith%26gsln_x%3dXO%26cpxt%3d1%26catBucket%3drstp%26uidh%3diof%26cp%3d11%26pcat%3dROOT_CATEGORY%26h%3d17467686%26db%3dUKProbateCal%26indiv%3d1%26ml_rpos%3d1&ssrc=&backlabel=ReturnRecord

bullet Sources of information or noted events in his life were:

• Web Based Info. http://johnmadjackfuller.homestead.com/fullerfam/pafg237.html

• Will. http://interactive.ancestry.co.uk/1904/32858_625988_3345-00013/17467686?backurl=http%3a%2f%2fsearch.ancestry.co.uk%2fcgi-bin%2fsse.dll%3frank%3d1%26new%3d1%26MSAV%3d1%26msT%3d1%26gss%3dangs-g%26gsfn%3dthomas%2bbackhouse%26gsfn_x%3dXO%26gsln%3dsandwith%26gsln_x%3dXO%26cpxt%3d1%26catBucket%3drstp%26uidh%3diof%26cp%3d11%26pcat%3dROOT_CATEGORY%26h%3d17467686%26db%3dUKProbateCal%26indiv%3d1%26ml_rpos%3d1&ssrc=&backlabel=ReturnRecord

• Education. Cambridge University.

Adm. pens. at ST CATHARINE'S, May 29, 1851. S. of Humphrey, M.D., of Bridlington, Yorks. B. there [Mar. 10, 1831]. School, Edinburgh Academy. Matric. Michs. 1851; B.A. 1856. In the Consular Service. Vice-Consul at Aintab, 1857; at Marash; and at Caiffa, 1861; Acting Consul at Damascus, 1862; Acting Vice-Consul at Cyprus, 1865; Consul at Crete, 1870; at Tunis, 1885; Consul-General at Odessa, 1888-91; retired. C.B., 1879. Married, 1865, Clara Agnes, dau. of the Rev. Robert Fitzherbert Fuller, R. of Chalvington, Sussex. Latterly of Hall Lands, Nutfield, Surrey. Died Apr. 24, 1900. Brother of Henry (1847); father of Harold (1892). (Edin. Acad. Reg.; Who was Who.)

• General Comment. A remarkable early collection of Greek and Greek Island embroidery was given to the Victorian and Albert Museum in 1876. This had been privately collected by Thomas Backhouse Sandwith, Consul of the British Foreign Office when he was based at Khania in Crete from 1870 to 1885. Robert Merrillees writes that Sandwith was a distinguished archaeologist who played an important role in the In the establishment Of British archaeology in Cyprus, where he was vice consul from 1865 two 1870. In Crete, Merrillees notes, Sandwith 'befriended the Cretans and stood up for them in their struggles against the Ottoman Turks'. Pauline Johnson, the expert on these textiles, notes that, like their Hazlemere textile collection, the Sandwith examples to were largely unidentified in the museum archives. A hundred years later, with careful use of early travellers' accounts (typical of those discussed in chapter 1) she was able too add the precise origins and dates of these remarkable pieces. She found they were mostly from the 17th and 18th centuries - rare treasures indeed and included highly decorative dresses skirts and embroidery. Fiona McCarthy noted William Morris's interest in Crete and embroidery. In 1876 he sent Mrs Thomas Wardle, who later opened the Leek School of Embroidery, 'two exemplary pieces of Cretan embroidery for her textile museum, so it is possible that Morris's influence may have played a role in the six sceptres of these pieces into South Kensington collection.

http://books.google.co.za/books?id=lFnNu1XFD_MC&pg=PA263&lpg=PA263&dq=thomas+backhouse+sandwith&source=bl&ots=IOUpgHu7cu&sig=cBCxBgXm8RZO4_JQUbUntZDMCkE&hl=en&sa=X&ei=lVPRUsmWOu3Y7AagsoAY&ved=0CEYQ6AEwBQ#v=onepage&q=thomas%20backhouse%20sandwith&f=false

Thomas married Clara Agnes Fuller, daughter of Rev. Robert Fitzherbert Fuller and Maria Ursula Sheffield, on 18 Dec 1865 in Christ Church, Ramsgate, Kent, England. (Clara Agnes Fuller was born on 26 Mar 1835, christened on 11 Aug 1835 in Lingfield, Surrey, England, died on 2 May 1908 in Lucknow, Bengal. India and was buried on 11 May 1908 in Lucknow, Bengal. India.)

bullet Sources of information or noted events in their marriage were:

• Web Based Info. http://johnmadjackfuller.homestead.com/fullerfam/pafg237.html

And

http://search.ancestry.co.uk/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=FreeBMDMarriage&h=25245595&indiv=try&o_vc=Record:OtherRecord&rhSource=3997

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