Edwin Sandys

• General Notes
  •     The modern story of this family begins in the village of Hawkshead, Furness Fells, Lancashire, England, in the year 1516 with the birth of Edwin Sandys.  He was the third son of William and Margaret (Dixon) Sandys. The name 'Sandys', pronounced 'Sandz', was the medieval spelling of the modern name 'Sands'.  Edwin's early education took place at Furness Abbey and later he attended St. John's College, Cambridge University, where he received his Doctor of Divinity degree in 1549.  In 1548 he was vicar of Haversham and, in 1549, canon of Peterborough.  He became vice-chancellor of Cambridge University in 1553.  In 1559 he was consecrated Bishop of Worcester and in 1570 became Bishop of London.  On 8 March 1575/76 he was consecrated Archbishop of York, the second highest office in the Church of England next to the Archbishop of Canterbury.  He died on the 10 July 1588 and was buried at Southwell Minster.  He was married twice; his first wife who died was a cousin, the daughter of a Mr. Sandys of Essex.  He remarried on 19 February 1558/59 to Cicely, daughter of Sir Thomas Wilford of Cranbrook, Kent.  They had seven sons and two daughters.  The daughters were Margaret (1566) who married Anthony Aucher and Anne (1570) who married Sir William Barne.  The sons were Sir Samuel (1560-1623); Sir Edwin (1561-1629); Sir Miles (1563-1644); William (1565-died young); Thomas (1568); Henry (1572); George (1578-1644).
    
    "Edwin Sandys married (1) his cousin Mary Sandys of Essex, who, with their only child, James, died while he was in exile, 1554-1560. On 19 February 1558/59 he married (2) Cecely Wilford. The Archbishop died on 10 July 1588 and was buried in Southwell Minister, Notts. His widow survived until 5 February 1610 and was buried in Woodham Ferrars, Essex. According to her epitaph, 'She led a most Christian and holy life, carefully educated her children, wisely governed her familye, charitably relieved the poore, and was a true mirror of a Christian matron." 

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