Sir Richard Sandys, 1st Baronet (6 January 1670 – 5 May 1726) was an English baronet.
Sandys was the son of Sir Richard Sandys (son of Colonel Edwin Sandys, son of
Sir Edwin Sandys, second son of
Edwin Sandys,
Archbishop of York
The archbishop of York is a senior bishop in the Church of England, second only to the archbishop of Canterbury. The archbishop is the diocesan bishop of the Diocese of York and the metropolitan bishop of the province of York, which covers th ...
) and his wife Mary, daughter of
Sir Henry Heyman, Bt.
He was created a baronet on 15 December 1684.
He married firstly Jane Ward, daughter of Rev. Thomas Ward, and secondly Mary Rolle, daughter of Sir
Francis Rolle
Sir Francis Rolle (1630–1686) was an English lawyer and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1656 and 1685.
Biography
Rolle was the only son of Henry Rolle of Shapwick in Somerset, who was Chief Justice of the ...
.
He had seven daughters,
but no sons. The baronetcy therefore became extinct with his death on 5 May 1726.
References
1670 births
1726 deaths
Baronets in the Baronetage of England
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