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Archbishop Edwin Sandys (1519 - 1588) was an English prelate. He was Anglican Bishop of Worcester (1559-1570), and London (1570-1576), and Archbishop of York (1576-1588). He was one of the translators of the Bishops' Bible.

His second son, Sir Edwin Sandys, was one of the colonial organizers and treasurer of the New World colony of Virginia.

Categories: 1519 births | 1588 deaths | Archbishops

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Sir Edwin Sandys - LoveToKnow 1911 (466 words)
	SIR EDWIN SANDYS (1561-1629), British statesman and one of the founders;tof the colony of Virginia, was the second son of Edwin Sandys, archbishop of York, and his wife Cecily Wilford.
	Sandys is said to have had a large share in securing the Mastership of the Temple for Hooker.
	Sir Edwin Sandys sat in the later parliaments of James I.

Kids.Net.Au - Encyclopedia > Edwin Sandys (490 words)
	Sir Edwin Sandys (9 December 1561 - October 1629) was a British statesman and one of the founders of the colony of Virginia.
	Born in Worcestershire, Sandys was the second son of Edwin Sandys, Archbishop of York, and his wife Cecily Wilford.
	Sir Edwin Sandys sat in the later parliaments of James I as member for Sandwich in 1621, and for Kent in 1624.

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