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Edwin Sandys (MP For Pontefract)
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Edwin Sandys may refer to: * Edwin Sandys (bishop) (1519–1588), Bishop of London, Worcester, Archbishop of York * Sir Edwin Sandys (died 1629) (1561–1629), founder of the colony of Virginia, son of the archbishop * Sir Edwin Sandys (died 1608) (–1608), English politician * Sir Edwin Sandys (died 1623) (1591–1623), English politician * Edwin Sandys (Parliamentarian) (1612-1642) * Edwin Sandys (MP for Worcestershire) (1659–1699), British politician * Edwin Sandys, 2nd Baron Sandys (1726–1797) See also Sandys (surname) Sandys is a surname of Old English origin. It is an older spelling of Sands, and is now usually pronounced as such. People with the surname * Anthony Frederick Augustus Sandys (1829–1904), British Pre-Raphaelite painter, aka Frederic Sandys * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edwin Sandys (bishop)
Edwin Sandys (; 1519 – 10 July 1588) was an English prelate. He was Anglican Bishop of Worcester (1559–1570), London (1570–1576) and Archbishop of York (1576–1588) during the reign of Elizabeth I of England. He was one of the translators of the Bishops' Bible. Early years and education Edwin was born in 1519 at Esthwaite Hall, which is 1 mile south of Hawkshead, Cumbria, on the road to Newby Bridge. The Hall nestles in the valley and overlooks Esthwaite Water. Today it is still a family home, although the Sandys family now reside in the grander Graythwaite Hall, a few miles further south. He was the son of William Sandys and Margaret Dixon. Whilst there is a theory that young Edwin received his early education at Furness Abbey, it is believed by CollinsonPatrick Collinson – "Archbishop Grindal 1519–1583 The struggle for a reformed church" 1979 that both Edmund Grindal and Edwin Sandys shared a childhood, quite probably in St Bees, and were educated together. A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edwin Sandys (died 1629)
Sir Edwin Sandys ( ; 9 December 1561 – October 1629) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1589 and 1626. He was also one of the founders of the proprietary Virginia Company of London, which in 1606 established the first permanent English settlement in what is now the United States in the colony of Virginia, based at Jamestown. The parish of Sandys, in Bermuda (the Virginia Company's second colony) is named after him. Early life and career Sandys (pronounced ''Sands'') was born in Worcestershire, the second son of Edwin Sandys, Archbishop of York, and his wife Cecily Wilford. He received his education at Merchant Taylors' School, which he entered in 1571, and at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, (from 1577). He graduated B.A. in 1579 and was admitted fellow in the same year and B.C.L. in 1589. At Oxford his tutor was Richard Hooker, author of the ''Ecclesiastical Polity'', whose lifelong friend and executor Sandys became. Sandys ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edwin Sandys (died 1608)
Sir Edwin Sandys ( – 15 March 1608) was an English politician, MP for Andover 1586–1587. He was the eldest son of Miles Sandys (brother of Edwin Sandys, Archbishop of York) and his first wife Hester Clifton. Sandys and his brothers may be the "Sandes" who appear in the registers of Eton College, in which case Edwin Sandys attended 1574–1575. He entered the Middle Temple in 1579. On 2 June 1586 he married Elizabeth Sandys, daughter of William, 3rd Baron Sandys of The Vyne. (Despite the name, the two families had different origins: the family of Archbishop Sandys originated in Cumbria, while the Barons Sandys had their seat at The Vyne, Hampshire.) They had three sons, of which the youngest, but the only one to leave children, was Colonel Henry Sandys, 5th Baron Sandys. Sandys was elected MP for Andover in 1586, but sat in only one Parliament. In the following Parliament of 1589, Sandys was replaced by his brother-in-law Thomas Temple. He was knighted in Ireland i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edwin Sandys (died 1623)
Sir Edwin Sandys (1591 – 6 September 1623) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1614 and 1622. Sandys was the eldest son of Sir Samuel Sandys , and the grandson of Edwin Sandys, Archbishop of York. He was baptised at Woodham Ferrers, Essex on 28 March 1591. He matriculated at Corpus Christi College, Oxford on 13 November 1609 aged 18. He entered the Middle Temple in 1610. In 1614, Sandys was elected Member of Parliament for Droitwich. He was knighted at York on 12 April 1617. In 1621 he was elected MP for Pontefract. Sandys died in September 1623, three weeks after his father. Father and son, and their wives, are cast in alabaster effigy in their funerary monument in Wickhamford church, Worcestershire. Family In 1614, Sandys married Penelope Bulkeley, daughter of Sir Richard Bulkeley of Baron Hill, Anglesey. They had four sons and three daughters: * Sir Samuel Sandys (1615–1685) * Richard Sandys (1616–1642), killed at the Battle of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edwin Sandys (Parliamentarian)
Edwin Sandys (1612 – December 1642) was an English Colonel in the Parlmentarian Army under Robert Devereux, 3rd Earl of Essex at the start of the First English Civil War. He was educated at Wadham College, Oxford and lived at the family seat in Northbourne, Kent. He is known for leading troops in the Iconoclasm and Looting of Canterbury Cathedral and Rochester Cathedral, which were the first attacks on cathedrals by parliamentary soldiers. Sandys was also a key leader in fighting in the first battle of the First English Civil War. There have been two baronetcies created for members of the Sandys family, both in the Baronetage of England. Both creations are extinct. Family Edwin Sandys was the son of Edwin Sandys (died 1629) His father was an English politician, famous for coining the phrase 'honesty is the best policy', younger brother of Henry Sandys (MP) and grandson of former Archbishop of York Edwin Sandys (bishop). When his father died Henry Sandys was executor of his fat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edwin Sandys (MP For Worcestershire)
Edwin Sandys (1659–1699) was an English politician, MP for Worcestershire 1695–1698. He was the eldest son of Samuel Sandys (a descendant of Edwin Sandys, Archbishop of York) and his wife Elizabeth Pettus, daughter of Sir John Pettus . He was elected MP for Worcestershire in 1695. He did not stand in 1698, probably due to ill health. Family On 14 October 1694 he married Alice Rushout, daughter of Sir James Rushout . They had two sons and one daughter: * Samuel Sandys (1695–1770), Chancellor of the Exchequer, created Baron Sandys Baron Sandys () is a title that has been created three times, once in the Peerage of England, once in the Peerage of Great Britain and once in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. The first creation, as Baron Sandys, ''of The Vyne'', in Hamp ... in 1743 * Alice Sandys (born 1696), married Captain Daniel Tomkins * Edwin Sandys (1698–1718?), "bred for the sea and died young", possibly in 1718 on board the Argyle References 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edwin Sandys, 2nd Baron Sandys
Edwin Sandys, 2nd Baron Sandys (28 April 1726 – 11 March 1797), was a British politician. He was the eldest son of Samuel Sandys, 1st Baron Sandys, and his wife Letitia, daughter of Sir Thomas Tipping, Bt. He was educated at New College, Oxford, matriculating in 1743. He did not graduate, but was awarded a DCL in 1756. He served as Member of Parliament for Droitwich from 1747 to 1754, for Bossiney from 1754 to 1762 and for Westminster from 1762 to 1770. He was a Lord of the Admiralty This is a list of Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty (incomplete before the Restoration, 1660). The Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty were the members of The Board of Admiralty, which exercised the office of Lord High Admiral when it was ... from April to July, 1757. On 26 January 1769 Sandys married Anna Maria King, daughter of James Colebrooke and widow of William Paine King. On his father's death in 1770, he succeeded to the barony as the 2nd Baron Sandys, and to estates ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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