Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1500-1714/Sandys, (Sir) Edwin

by Joseph Foster

Sandys, (Sir) Edwin, scholar Corpus Christi Coll. 1577, B.A. 16 Oct., 1579, fellow 1579-80, M.A. 5 July, 1583, B.C.L. supd. 23 April, 1589; of Northbourne, Kent, "a celebrated traveller," born 9 Dec., 1561; student of Middle Temple 1589 (as 2s. Edwin, archbishop of York), canon of York 1581-1603; M.P. Andover 1586-7, Plympton 1588-9, 1593, Stockbridge 1604-11, Rochester 1614, Sandwich 1621-2, Kent 1624-5, Penryn 1625 and 1626; knighted 11 May, 1603, imprisoned in the tower, with Selden, wrote 'Europae Speculum,' bequeathed £1500 for a metaphysical lecture at Oxford; died Oct., 1629, buried in Northbourne church; father of Edwin and Henry 1621. See Ath. ii. 472; Robinson, i. 17; & Foster's Inns of Court Reg.