Miles Sandys (died 1636)

Sir Miles Sandys (c. 1601 – 1636) was an English politician and author, MP for Cirencester in 1625.[1]

Sandys was the son of Sir William Sandys (son of Miles Sandys MP, himself brother of Edwin Sandys, Archbishop of York), and his wife Margaret, daughter of Walter Culpeper.[1] His younger brother was William Sandys MP, the waterways engineer known as "Waterworks Sandys".

He was educated at Hart Hall, Oxford, matriculating in 1616 aged 15, not taking a degree. He entered the Middle Temple as a student in 1618.[2]

He was knighted on 8 June 1619.[1]

On 4 November 1622 he married Mary Hanbury, daughter of Sir John Hanbury.[1] They had one daughter and three sons:[3]

  • Mary Sandys
  • William Sandys (died 1649)
  • Edward Sandys
  • Miles Sandys

Sandys was elected MP for Cirencester in the Useless Parliament of 1625. The Parliament was dissolved by King Charles I after sitting for less than three months; Sandys left no mark on the parliamentary records.[1]

He was the author of the treatise Prudence, published in two editions in 1634, which accounts for prudence as comprising memory, understanding and providence.[4]



References

  1. ^ a b c d e "SANDYS, Sir Miles (c.1601-1636), of Brimpsfield, Glos". History of Parliament. Retrieved 9 June 2018.
  2. ^ Foster, Joseph (1888–1892). "Sandyes, (Sir) Miles" . Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1500–1714. Oxford: Parker and Co – via Wikisource.
  3. ^ Debrett, John (1815). Debrett's Baronetage of England. Vol. 2 (3rd ed.). p. 1252. Retrieved 3 October 2019.
  4. ^ Engel, William E.; Loughnane, Rory; Williams, Grant, eds. (2016). "Miles Sandys: Prudence (1634)". The Memory Arts in Renaissance England: A Critical Anthology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 131 ff. ISBN 9781107086814. Retrieved 3 October 2019.
Parliament of England
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1625–1626
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