Sir Miles Sandys, 1st Baronet

Sir Miles Sandys, 1st Baronet (29 March 1563 – 1645) was an English landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1614 and 1629.

Biography Sandys was the son of Edwin Sandys, Archbishop of York and his second wife Cecily Wilford, daughter of Sir Thomas Wilford, of Cranbrook, Kent.

He was admitted to Merchant Taylors' School in April 1571, with his older brothers Samuel and Edwin (all three later became MPs).

He and his brother Edwin were both knighted by King James I on 11 May 1603 at the Charterhouse. Sir Miles was created baronet of Wilberton in Cambridgeshire on 25 November 1611. From 1615 to 1616, he was High Sheriff of Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire.

In 1614, Sandys was elected Member of Parliament for Cambridge University in the Addled Parliament. He was elected MP for Huntingdon in 1621, and in 1628 MP for Cambridgeshire, 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 North Cray, and they had seven sons and one daughter. He married secondly Mary West, a widow, at St Mary Aldermanbury, London on 28 November 1626.