Sandys baronets

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Edwin Sandys, Archbishop of York, ancestor of the Sandys baronets of Wilberton and Northborne

There have been two baronetcies created for members of the Sandys family, both in the Baronetage of England. Both creations are extinct.

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The Sandys Baronetcy, of Wilberton in the County of Cambridge, was created in the Baronetage of England on 25 November 1611 for Sir Miles Sandys, Member of Parliament for Cambridge, Huntingdon and Cambridgeshire. He was the third son of Edwin Sandys, Archbishop of York. Sandys was succeeded by his eldest son, Miles, the second Baronet, who had already been knighted. The title became extinct when the latter died childless in 1654. [1]

Sir Miles Sandys, 1st Baronet was an English landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1614 and 1629.

Cambridge University was a university constituency electing two members to the British House of Commons, from 1603 to 1950.

Huntingdon (UK Parliament constituency) Parliamentary constituency in the United Kingdom, 1983 onwards

Huntingdon is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2001 by Jonathan Djanogly, a Conservative.

The Sandys Baronetcy, of Northborne in the County of Kent, was created in the Baronetage of England on 15 December 1684 for the fourteen-year-old Richard Sandys. He was the grandson of Edwin Sandys, of Northbourne Court, a colonel in the parliamentary army, elder son of Sir Edwin Sandys, second son of Edwin Sandys, Archbishop of York, and elder brother of Sir Miles Sandys, 1st Baronet, of Wilberton (see above). Sandys left only daughters and the title became extinct on his death in 1726.

Sir Richard Sandys, 1st Baronet was an English baronet.

Edwin Sandys (died 1629) English politician, died 1629

Sir Edwin Sandys 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 1606 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 is named after him.

Sir Samuel Sandys, of Ombersley, eldest brother of Sir Miles Sandys, 1st Baronet, of Wilberton, was the ancestor of the Barons Sandys (of the 1743 and 1802 creations). George Sandys, seventh son of Edwin Sandys, Archbishop of York, was a traveller and poet. Miles Sandys, brother of Edwin Sandys, Archbishop of York, was a courtier and politician.

Sir Samuel Sandys was an English landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1586 and 1622.

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.

George Sandys English traveller, colonist, poet, translator

George Sandys was an English traveller, colonist, poet, and translator.

The family surname is pronounced "Sands".

Sandys baronets, of Wilberton (1611)

Sandys baronets, of Northborne (1684)

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Baronetage of England
Preceded by
Ridgeway baronets
Sandys baronets
25 November 1611
Succeeded by
Portman baronets