Sandys, Edwin, Sir, 1561-1629
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Name (Latin)
Sandys, Edwin, Sir, 1561-1629
Other forms of name
Sandis, Edwin, Sir, 1561-1629
Date of birth
1561-12-06
Date of death
1629-10
Gender
male
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Sources of Information
- His Europae speculum, 1673:t.p. (Sir Edwin Sandys, Knight)
- DNB(Sandys, Sir Edwin, 1561-1629)
- InU/Wing STC files(usage: chevalier Edwin Sandis)
- Athenae Oxonienses, 1815: v. 2(Edwin Sandys; admitted scholar of C.C. coll. in Sept. 1577, and in the year of his age 16 or thereabouts)
- Oxford DNB online 16 June 2010(Sir Edwin Sandys, politician and colonial entrepreneur; born 6 Dec. 1561, son of Edwin Sandys (1519?-1588), then bishop of Worcester; in about 1599 Sandys completed his one major piece of writing "A relation of the state of religion"; died Oct. 1629)
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Edwin Sandys (1561-1629)
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Wikipedia description:
Sir Edwin Sandys ( SANDZ; 9 December 1561 – October 1629) 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 1607 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 (the Virginia Company's second colony) is named after him.
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