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    George Sandys (/sændz/ "sands"; 2 March 1578 – March 1644) was an English traveller, colonist, poet, and translator. He was known for his translations...
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    Duncan Edwin Duncan-Sandys, Baron Duncan-Sandys CH, PC (/sændz/; 24 January 1908 – 26 November 1987), was a British politician and minister in successive...
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    Captain George John Sandys (/ˈsændz/; 23 September 1875 – 3 September 1937) was a British diplomat and Conservative politician. Sandys was the son of James...
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    executor Sandys became. Sandys is said to have had a large share in securing the Mastership of the Temple Church in London for Hooker. In 1582 Sandys' father...
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    and breast of a woman. Examples included Johannes Helferich (1579), George Sandys (1615), Johann Michael Vansleb (1677), Benoît de Maillet (1735) and...
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    home, although the Sandys family now reside in the grander Graythwaite Hall, a few miles further south. He was the son of William Sandys and Margaret Dixon...
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    Samuel Sandys, 1st Baron Sandys PC (/ˈsændz/; 10 August 1695 – 21 April 1770), was a British Whig politician who represented Worcester in the House of...
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    The first creation, as Baron Sandys, of The Vyne, in Hampshire, was in the Peerage of England in 1523 for William Sandys, the favourite of King Henry...
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    Anthony Frederick Augustus Sandys (born Antonio Frederic Augustus Sands; 1 May 1829 – 25 June 1904), usually known as Frederick Sandys, was a British painter...
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    on which they likewise frequently bestow considerable donations". George Sandys, who visited Alexandria in 1610, was reportedly shown a sepulchre there...
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  • of the footballer Charlie George Frederick George Sandy, Canadian politician All pages with titles containing Frederick George This disambiguation page...
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    African, report having seen Alexander's tomb. Leo the African in 1491 and George Sandys in 1611 reportedly saw the tomb in Alexandria. According to one legend...
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    there for the same end – and this is the punishment for man-slaughter. George Sandys, however, during the same period, tells of a method as no longer in...
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    earthquake, which also damaged the nearby Lighthouse of Alexandria. George Sandys wrote of his 1610 journey: "Of Antiquities there are few remainders:...
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    couplets of iambic heptameter. The next significant translation was by George Sandys, produced from 1621 to 1626, which set the poem in heroic couplets,...
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    baronetcies created for members of the Sandys family, both in the Baronetage of England. Both creations are extinct. The Sandys Baronetcy, of Wilberton in the...
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  • Thomas Sandys, 2nd Baron Sandys, was an English peer. The son of William Sandys, 1st Baron Sandys, Sandys succeeded his father and was summoned to Parliament...
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  • John Sandys may refer to: John Sandys (classicist) (1844–1922), English classical scholar John Sandys (MP) for Hampshire (UK Parliament constituency) John...
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  • Frederick George Sandy was a Canadian politician from Ontario. He represented Victoria South in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1919 to 1923,...
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    Spencer-Churchill: family tree and Dukes of Marlborough by Duncan Sandys, Baron Sandys by Pamela Digby by June Osborne by Christopher Soames, Baron Soames...
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    wife Mary, Marchioness of Downshire, granddaughter of the 1st Baron Sandys. Lord George was born three months after his father's death by suicide. He entered...
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  • December 1963 to the Conservative MP Piers Dixon and the artist Edwina Sandys. The couple divorced in 1970 when Dixon was six. Dixon has an older brother...
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  • Sir Miles Sandys (c. 1601 – 1636) was an English politician and author, MP for Cirencester in 1625. Sandys was the son of Sir William Sandys (son of Miles...
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    the colony), John Pott (a physician), and the first poet in America, George Sandys. The introduction of common law is also memorialized on one of the plaques...
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  • exploration of George Sandys's James City property. The article includes the statement: "In the weeks that followed the March 22 Uprising, Sandys composed a...
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    1st Baroness Sandys (19 February 1764 – 1 August 1836), was a British peeress. She was born Mary Sandys, daughter of Colonel Martin Sandys (fourth son...
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  • Colonel Henry Sandys, 5th Baron Sandys (died 6 April 1644), was an English nobleman and Cavalier officer in the English Civil War. Sandys was the third...
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    William Sandys, 1st Baron Sandys (1470 – 4 December 1540), KG, of The Vyne in the parish of Sherborne St John, Hampshire, was an English diplomat, and...
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    Sandys (1802) from 2013 Wills Hill, 1st Marquess of Downshire (1718–1793) Arthur Hill, 2nd Marquess of Downshire (1753–1801) Arthur Blundell Sandys Trumbull...
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  •  1564–1608) Sir William Sandys (1565–1641) Hester Sandys (1569–1656), married Sir Thomas Temple, Bt George Sandys Henry Sandys Elizabeth Sandys, married Sir Edmund...
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