The eldest son of Samuel Sandars of Lochnere, near
Hemel Hempstead,
Hertfordshire, he matriculated at
Balliol College, Oxford, on 30 November 1843. He was a scholar there from 1843 to 1849, graduated B.A. in 1848 (having taken first-class honours
in literis humanioribus and the chancellor's Latin-verse prize), became fellow of
Oriel College in 1849, and proceeded M.A. in 1851. Sandars was
called to the bar in 1851, and was reader of constitutional law and history to the
Inns of Court from 1865 to 1873. He had interests in commerce, in later years, and went twice to Egypt in 1877 and 1880 to represent the Association of Foreign Bondholders. He was also chairman of the
Mexican Railway Company. Sandars died on 2 August 1894 at
Queen Anne's Mansions,
Westminster. ==Works==