Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1500-1714/Sandys, Samuel (2)

by Joseph Foster

Sandys, Samuel, s. Edw(in), of Greenwich, Kent, arm. New Coll., matric. 28 April, 1711, aged 16; M.P. Worcester in 5 parliaments, March, 1718, until created Baron Sandys 20 Dec., 1743, called "the motion maker" by Smollett, chancellor and under treasurer of the exchequer, a commissioner of the treasury and P.C. 1741, cofferer of the household 1743, lord warden and justice in eyre south of Trent, 1756, speaker of the house of lords, Dec., 1756; died 21 April, 1770.