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SIR EDWIN SANDYS (1561-1629)

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Originally appearing in Volume V24, Page 144 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SIR See also:EDWIN See also:SANDYS (1561-1629)  , See also:British statesman and one of the founders tof the See also:colony of See also:Virginia, was the second son of See also:Edwin See also:Sandys, See also:archbishop of See also:York, and his wife Cecily Wilford . He was See also:born in See also:Worcestershire on the 9th of See also:December 1561 . He was educated at See also:Merchant Taylors' school, which he entered in 1571, and at Corpus Christi See also:College, See also:Oxford, where he was sent in 1577 . He became B.A. in 1579 and B.C.L. in 1588 . In 1582 his See also:father gave him the prebend of Witwang in York See also:Minster, but he never took orders . He was entered in the See also:Middle See also:Temple in 1589 . At Oxford his See also:tutor had been See also:Hooker, author of the Ecclesiastical Polity, whose See also:life-See also:long friend and executor he was . Sandys is said to have had a large See also:share in securing the Mastership of the Temple for Hooker . From 1593 till 1599 he travelled abroad . When in See also:Venice he became closely connected with Fra See also:Paolo See also:Sarpi, who helped him in the See also:composition of the See also:treatise on the religious See also:state of See also:Europe, known as the Europae See also:speculum . In 16o5 this treatise was printed from a stolen copy under the See also:title; A Relation of the State of See also:Religion in Europe . Sandys procured the suppression of this edition, but the See also:book was reprinted at the See also:Hague in 1629 .

In 1599 he resigned his prebend, and entered active See also:

political life . He had already been member for See also:Andover in 1586 and for Plympton in 1589 . After 1599, in view of the approaching See also:death of See also:Queen See also:Elizabeth, he paid his See also:court to See also:King See also:James VI., and on James's See also:accession to the See also:throne of See also:England in 1603 Sandys was knighted . He sat in the king's first See also:parliament as member for See also:Stockbridge, and distinguished himself as one of the assailants of the See also:great monopolies . He endeavoured to secure to all prisoners the right of employing counsel, a proposal which was resisted by some lawyers as subversive of the See also:administration of the See also:law . He had been connected with the See also:East See also:India See also:Company before 1614, and took an active See also:part in its affairs till 1629 . His most memorable services were, however, rendered to the (See also:London) Virginia Company, to which he became treasurer in 1619 . He promoted and supported the policy which enabled the colony to survive the disasters of its See also:early days, and, he continued to be a leading See also:influence in the Company till his death . See also:Sir Edwin Sandys sat in the later parliaments of James I. as member for See also:Sandwich in 1621, and for See also:Kent in 1624 . Hib tendencies were towards opposition, and he was suspected of hostility to the court; but he disarmed the anger of the king by professions of obedience . He was member for See also:Penrhyn in the first parliament of See also:Charles I. in 1625 . He died in See also:October 1629 .

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