Miles Sandys (died 1636)

Sir Miles Sandys (c. 1601 – 1636) was an English politician and author, MP for Cirencester in 1625.^[1]

Sandys was the son of Sir William Sandys (son of Miles Sandys MP, himself brother of Edwin Sandys, Archbishop of York), and his wife Margaret, daughter of Walter Culpeper.^[1] His younger brother was William Sandys MP, the waterways engineer known as "Waterworks Sandys".

He was educated at Hart Hall, Oxford, matriculating in 1616 aged 15, not taking a degree. He entered the Middle Temple as a student in 1618.^[2]

He was knighted on 8 June 1619.^[1]

On 4 November 1622 he married Mary Hanbury, daughter of Sir John Hanbury.^[1] They had one daughter and three sons:^[3]

• Mary Sandys
• William Sandys (died 1649)
• Edward Sandys
• Miles Sandys

Sandys was elected MP for Cirencester in the Useless Parliament of 1625. The Parliament was dissolved by King Charles I after sitting for less than three months; Sandys left no mark on the parliamentary records.^[1]

He was the author of the treatise Prudence, published in two editions in 1634, which accounts for prudence as comprising memory, understanding and providence.^[4]

• "Sandys (several articles used as source material)". History of Parliament. Retrieved 4 October 2019.