ID: I24697
Title: Sir
Name: Edwin SANDYS Knight
Sex: M
Change Date: 25 FEB 2013
Ancestral File #: LSJG-0T
Birth: 09 DEC 1561 in Hartlebury Castle, Hartlebury, Worcestershire, England
Baptism: 14 DEC 1561 Hartlebury, Worcestershire, England
Education: Entered Merchant Taylors’ School 1571 Merchant Taylors’ School, London, Middlesex, England
Education: Sept 1577 - Matriculated with his brother Samuel 16 Oct 1579 - B.A. 1580 - Fellow of Corpus Christi 5 July 1583 - M.A. 23 Apr 1589 - B.C.L. (Bachelor of Civil Law) BET SEP 1577 AND 23 APR 1589 Corpus Christi College, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England
Occupation: Prebend of Wetwang BET 17 MAR 1582 AND 1602 York Cathedral, York, Yorkshire, England
Event:
Public Office BET 13 OCT 1586 AND 1626
Residence: BET 1588 AND 1590 London, Middlesex, England
Education: admitted a student 1589 Middle Temple, London, London, England
Residence: 1593 The Strand, London, Middlesex, England
Residence: 1595 Middle Temple, London, Middlesex, England
Residence: 1600 Scotland
Event:
Property 1601 Manor of Bishops Enbrooke, Folkstone, Kent, England
Event:
Title 11 MAY 1603 Charter House, London, London, England
Occupation: became a member of the Council of Virginia 1607
Occupation: appointed a member of the Council of the virginia Company 09 MAR 1607
Residence: 1608 Aldersgate, London, Middlesex, England
Residence: BET 1614 AND 1629 Northbourne, Kent, England
Occupation: member of the East India Company. BEF AUG 1614
Occupation: High Sherriff 1615 Kent, England
Occupation: admitted as a member of the Somers Islands Company, and the Sandys tribe in that group was named after him. 1615
Occupation: chosen to assist Sir Thomas Smythe, the Treasurer, in the management of the Virginia Company 1617
Occupation: sworn a free brother of the East India Company. 31 MAR 1618
Occupation: nearly unanimously elected the Treasurer of the Virginia Company. He instituted a rigourous system of accounts. Over the next year he was responsible for the Virginia Colony establishing a representative assembly modeled after the English House of Commons. He also secured the exclusion of foreign tobacco from England. 28 APR 1619
Will: 21 AUG 1629
Death: OCT 1629 in London, Middlesex, England
Probate: 31 OCT 1629 Prerogative Court of Canterbury, London, London, England
Burial: 01 NOV 1629 St. Augustine’s Church, Northbourne, Kent, England
Father: Edwin SANDYS D.D. b: ABT 1517 in Esthwaite Hall, Furness Fells, Lancashire, England
Mother: Cecilia WILFORD b: ABT 1537
Marriage 1
Katherine BULKELEY b: 1583
Children
Edwyn SANDYS Esq Catherine SANDYS Robert SANDYS Thomas SANDYS William SANDYS Margaret SANDYS Francis SANDYS b: AFT 1601 Mary SANDYS b: 12 SEP 1607 Henry SANDYS b: 1608 in Northbourne Manor, Northbourne, Kent, England Richard SANDYS b: BEF 06 OCT 1608 in Kent, England Frances SANDYS b: BET 1614 AND 1619 Penelope SANDYS b: ABT 1617 Unnamed SANDYS b: 10 SEP 1620 Marriage 2
Margaret EVERLEIGH b: ABT 1565
Children
Elizabeth SANDYS b: ABT 1587 Marriage 3
Anne SOUTHCOTT b: ABT 1565
Children
Anne SANDYS b: ABT 1587 Marriage 4
Elizabeth NEVINSON b: ABT 1565 in Eastry, Kent, England | |