Sir Miles Sandys, 1st Baronet (29 March 1563 – 1645) was an English landowner and politician who sat in the

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at various times between 1614 and 1629.

Biography

Sandys was the son of Edwin Sandys,

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and his second wife Cecily Wilford, daughter of Sir Thomas Wilford, of

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. He was admitted to Merchant Taylors' School in April 1571, with his older brothers Samuel and

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(all three later became MPs). He matriculated at Peterhouse, Cambridge in 1578, graduating

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1580,

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1583. He gained a fellowship at Peterhouse in 1581, and at

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in 1585, and was Proctor at Cambridge in 1588–89. He was a prebendary at

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1585–1602. He and his brother

were both knighted by

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on 11 May 1603 at the

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. Sir Miles was created

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of Wilberton in

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on 25 November 1611. From 1615 to 1616, he was

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.George Edward Cokayne ''Complete Baronetage'' 1900
/ref> In 1614 Sandys was elected

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for

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in the

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. He was elected MP for

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, and in

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MP for

, and sat until 1629 when King Charles I decided to rule without parliament and did so for eleven years. His eldest son, also called Sir Miles Sandys, succeeded him on his death.

Family

Sandys married firstly Elizabeth Cooke, daughter of Edward Cooke of

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, and they had seven sons and one daughter. He married secondly Mary West, a widow, at St Mary Aldermanbury, London on 28 November 1626.

References

1563 births 1645 deaths People from Cambridgeshire People educated at Merchant Taylors' School, Northwood Alumni of Peterhouse, Cambridge Fellows of Peterhouse, Cambridge Fellows of Queens' College, Cambridge Baronets in the Baronetage of England Members of the pre-1707 Parliament of England for the University of Cambridge English knights 16th-century English people English MPs 1614 English MPs 1621–1622 English MPs 1628–1629 High Sheriffs of Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire {{England-baronet-stub