Edwin Sandys

English Member of Parliament
The basics

Quick Facts

IntroEnglish Member of Parliament
PlacesUnited Kingdom Great Britain England
wasPolitician
Work fieldPolitics
Gender
Male
Birth1659
Death1699 (aged 40 years)
Family
Mother:Elizabeth Pettus
Father:Samuel Sandys
Spouse:Alice Rushout
Children:Samuel Sandys, 1st Baron Sandys
The details

Biography

Edwin Sandys (1659–1699) was an English politician, MP for Worcestershire 1695–1698.

He was the eldest son of Samuel Sandys MP (a descendant of Edwin Sandys, Archbishop of York) and his wife Elizabeth Pettus, daughter of Sir John Pettus MP.

Family

On 14 October 1694 he married Alice Rushout, daughter of Sir James Rushout Bt MP. They had two sons and one daughter:

  • Samuel Sandys (1695–1770), Chancellor of the Exchequer, created Baron Sandys 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
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