Captain George John Sandys (; 23 September 1875 – 3 September 1937) was a British diplomat and Conservative politician.

Early life

Sandys was the son of James Sandys, of Slade House, Stroud, Gloucestershire, and was educated at

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and

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.SANDYS, Captain George John’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2008

Military career

He was commissioned as a

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and served with the Glamorgan Yeomanry in the

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from 1899, then transferred to the regular army when he became a second lieutenant in the

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on 15 August 1900, receiving a promotion to

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on 28 August 1901 while still in South Africa. After the end of the war he transferred to the

2nd Life Guards The 2nd Regiment of Life Guards was a cavalry regiment in the British Army, part of the Household Cavalry. It was formed in 1788 by the union of the 2nd Troop of Horse Guards and 2nd Troop of Horse Grenadier Guards. In 1922, it was amalgamated ...

in November 1902, leaving the army in 1905. He rejoined to serve in the British Expeditionary Force in the

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and was wounded at

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Parliamentary and diplomatic career

Sandys was a Member of Parliament for

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from 1910 to 1918. He later joined the diplomatic service, serving as an Honorary Attaché in the British Legation in

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(1921–22) and

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(1922-25).

Personal life

He married Mildred Helen, née Cameron, daughter of Duncan Cameron, of Canterbury, New Zealand in 1905. They had one child, a son Duncan Sandys. Duncan became a member of parliament and cabinet minister, and Duncan's daughter

Laura Sandys Laura Jane Sandys (; born 5 June 1964) is a former chair of the European Movement UK, and a British Conservative Party politician, who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for South Thanet between 2010 and 2015 when she stood down at the ...

, also a Conservative politician, was elected to represent South Thanet in 2010. Sandys divorced Mildred in January 1921.

Death

He died in

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, France.Larry L. Witherell, ''Rebel on the Right: Henry Page Croft and the Crisis of British Conservatism'', University of Delaware Press (1997), page 264.

References

External links

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