Bernard Keble Sandwell Quotes
I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with a little assistance from a professor of Greek and a few poets.
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Birth: | 6th December, 1876 |
Death: | 7th December, 1954 |
Nationality: | Canadian |
Profession: | Editor, Essayist, Professor |
Bernard Keble Sandwell was a Canadian editor. He joined the Montreal Financial Times in 1911 as an associate editor and remained there until 1919, when he joined Stephen Leacock at McGill University as an assistant professor of economics. Subsequently in 1923, he took the post of Head of English at Queen's University. Returning to Toronto in 1931, he became the editor of Saturday Night, and made the magazine the mouthpiece of Canadian Liberalism until his retirement from the journal in 1951. In 1944, he was appointed rector of Queen's University and in the same year he was appointed was Governor of the CBC, a post held until 1947.
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