About Edwin Sandys
Lived 1565 – 1608 (aged 42–43). Edwin Sandys was an English politician.
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. ) 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 in 1599, and was High Sheriff of Bedfordshire from February to November 1606.
He died on 15 March 1608.
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Who was Edwin Sandys?
English Member of Parliament (died 1608)
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Edwin Sandys was born in 1565.
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Edwin Sandys died on 15 March 1608.
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Edwin Sandys was a politician.
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Edwin Sandys was English.
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