Samuel Sandys

Sir Samuel Sandys (28 December 1560 – 18 August 1623) was an English landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1586 and 1622.

Biography Sandys was the eldest surviving son of Edwin Sandys, Archbishop of York, by his second wife Cecily Wilford.

He was admitted to Merchant Taylors' School in April 1571, with his younger brothers Edwin and Miles (all three later became MPs). He entered the Middle Temple in 1579.

He acquired the lease of the royal manor of Ombersley, Worcestershire in 1582. He was elected Member of Parliament for Ripon in 1586, and succeeded to the property of his father in 1588.

He was elected MP for Worcestershire in a by-election in 1609, re-elected in 1614 and 1621. By 1621, John Chamberlain numbered Sandys among the four chief speakers in the Commons. He often spoke in debates on electoral disputes, and raised matters of parliamentary procedure. Sir Edwin Sandys Martin Sandys John Sandys William Sandys Cecily Sandys, married John Brace Margaret Sandys, married Sir Francis Wyatt, Governor of Virginia Anne Sandys, married Sir Francis Wenman Mary Sandys, married Richard Humphrey Mercy Sandys, married Mr. Ewbank Joyce Sandys, married Edward Dyneley, Lord of Charlton Manor, Worcestershire. Elizabeth Sandys, married Edward Pytts

Note Collins states correctly that it was Elizabeth's daughter Mercy Pytts, married firstly Henry Bromley , who married secondly George Walsh .