Edwin Sandys (1561–1629)

Sir Edwin Sandys was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1589 and 1626. He was also one of the founders of the proprietary Virginia Company of London, which in 1606 established the first permanent English settlement in what is now the United States in the colony of Virginia, based at Jamestown. The parish of Sandys, in Bermuda is named after him.

9 December 1561

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Born in the same month (December 1561): Kikkawa Hiroie • Sophie Hedwig of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (1592–1642)