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Edwin Sandys (died 1629)
Edwin Sandys may refer to: * Edwin Sandys (bishop) (1519–1588), Bishop of London, Worcester, Archbishop of York * Sir Edwin Sandys (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) * Edwin Sandys (priest) (1642–1705), English Anglican priest See also * Sandys (surname) {{DEFAULTSORT:Sandys, Edwin ...
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Edwin Sandys (bishop)
Edwin Sandys (; 1519 – 10 July 1588) was an English prelate. He was Anglicanism, Anglican Bishop of Worcester (1559–1570), Bishop of London, 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 to William Sandys, esq. of Esthwaite Hall and Graythwaite Hall, and Margaret Dixon, daughter of Sir John Dixon. Sandys' place of education is not recorded, but historians believe that Edwin Sandys was educated alongside Edmund Grindal at St Bees,Patrick Collinson – "Archbishop Grindal 1519–1583 The struggle for a reformed church" 1979 and taught by the marian martyrs, Marian martyr John Bland. Sandys recalled that he and Grindal lived "familiarly" and "as brothers" and were only separated between Sandys's 13th and 18th Years. A branch of the Sandys family lived at Rottington Hall near St Bees, and were known to the heralds in 1563 ...
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Edwin Sandys (1561–1629)
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 1607 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. Sand ...
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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 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 Hampsh ... 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 chil ...
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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 Batt ...
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Edwin Sandys (Parliamentarian)
Edwin Sandys (1612 – December 1642) was an English Colonel in the Parliamentarian 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 execut ...
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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 Hampsh ... 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 ...
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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, 1st Baronet, Sir Thomas Tipping, Bt. He was educated at New College, Oxford, matriculating in 1743. He did not graduate, but was awarded a Doctor of Civil Law, DCL in 1756. He served as Member of Parliament for Droitwich (UK Parliament constituency), Droitwich from 1747 to 1754, for Bossiney (UK Parliament constituency), Bossiney from 1754 to 1762 and for Westminster (UK Parliament constituency), Westminster from 1762 to 1770. He was a Lord of the Admiralty from April to July, 1757. On 26 January 1769 Sandys married Anna Maria King, daughter of James Colebrooke (banker), 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 in Ombersley (including Ombersley Court) and elsewhere. ...
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Edwin Sandys (priest)
Edwin Sandys (25 October 1642 – 8 October 1705) was an English Anglican priest in the late 17th and early 18th centuries. Sandys was educated at Magdalen College, Oxford. He was a Fellow at Magdalen from 1665 to 1672. He held the living Living or The Living may refer to: Common meanings *Life, a condition that distinguishes organisms from inorganic objects and dead organisms ** Living species, one that is not extinct *Personal life, the course of an individual human's life * ... at Yeovilton with Puddimore. Sandys was Archdeacon of Wells from 1684 until his death on 8 October 1705. Notes 1642 births 1705 deaths 17th-century English Anglican priests 16th-century English Anglican priests Archdeacons of Wells Alumni of Magdalen College, Oxford {{England-Anglican-clergy-stub ...
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