Author: Sankey, William Simon Villiers
Biography:
SANKEY, William Simon Villiers (1793?-1860: ancestry.co.uk)
The son of Mary (Mills) and William Sankey, an Irish MP, he was probably born at Dublin and attended Trinity College Dublin before proceeding to Cambridge University, but exact details have not been discovered and ACAD has no record for him. He was a professor of philology and history; the 1851 Census lists him as a professor of mathematics. He married Sophia Mary Mulock (born at Dublin in about 1802, died 1853) at Marylebone, London, on 14 Mar. 1821; he refers in his application to the RLF to their having four children. His letter to the RLF, dated 1839 from Harmood Street, Camden Town, documents his declining fortunes over decades; he was awarded £15. The record for his death, at London on 25 Nov. 1860, gives his middle name at Stephen but he signed “William Simon” on the register for his marriage. He seems never to have used “Villiers.” He wrote articles for learned journals and published The Porte-Feuille of Science, Literature, and Art (1838). (ancestry.co.uk 21 Sept. 2020; RLF file 969)
Other Names:
- William S. Sankey