George Sandys

1577 - 1644  (67 years)    Has more than 100 ancestors but no descendants in this family tree.

• Name	George Sandys
  Birth	2 Mar 1577
  Gender	Male
  Death	Mar 1644	Boxley
  Siblings	11 Siblings
  + 1. Samuel Sandys,   b. 26 Dec 1560, Wickhamford, Worcester, England d. 18 Aug 1623  (Age 62 years) ▻ Mary Culpepper,  m. 1586 + 2. Edwin Sandys,   b. 9 Dec 1561   d. Oct 1629  (Age 67 years) ▻ Margaret Evelegh;   Anne Southcoft;   Elizabeth Nevinson;   Katherine Bulkeley   3. Myles Sandys,   b. 29 Mar 1563   d. 1645  (Age 81 years) + 4. Margaret Sandys   d. Yes, date unknown ▻ Anthony Aucher, II + 5. Anne Sandys,   b. 21 Jul 1570   d. 1629-1630, Woolrich, Kent, England  (Age 59 years) ▻ William Barne,  m. 11 May 1586   6. William Sandys   7. Thomas Sandys   8. George Sandys,   b. 2 Mar 1577   d. Mar 1644, Boxley  (Age 67 years)   9. Henry Sandys   10. Hester Sandys   11. Bridget Sandys + 12. NN Sandys ▻
  Person ID	I675439	Geneagraphie
  Last Modified	15 Jan 2010

  
  

  Father	Archbishop Dr. Edwin Sandys,   b. 1519, Hawkshead Parish, Furance Fells, Lancashire, England d. 10 Jul 1588 (Age 69 years)
  Mother	Cicely Wilford,   b. 1516, Cranbrook, Kent, England d. 1610, Cranbrook, Kent, England (Age 94 years)
  Marriage	19 Feb 1559
  Family ID	F230934	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  an English traveller, colonist and poet , the seventh and youngest son of Edwin Sandys , archbishop of York and was the uncle of Richard Lovelace (1618-1657), an English poet in the seventeenth century He studied at St Mary Hall, Oxford , but took no degree. On his travels, which began in 1610, he first visited France ; from north Italy he passed by way of Venice to Constantinople , and thence to Egypt , Mt. Sinai , Palestine , Cyprus , Sicily , Naples and Rome . His narrative, dedicated, like all his other works, to Charles (either as prince or king), was published in 1615, and formed a substantial contribution to geography and ethnology . He also took great interest in the earliest English colonization in America. In April 1621 he became colonial treasurer of the Virginia Company and sailed to Virginia with his niece's husband, Sir Francis Wyat , the new governor. When Virginia became a crown colony , Sandys was created a member of council in August 1624; he was reappointed to this post in 1626 and 1628. In 1631 he vainly applied for the secretaryship to the new special commission for the better plantation of Virginia; soon after this he returned to England for good. In 1621 he had already published an English translation of part of Ovid 's Metamorphoses; this he completed in 1626; on this mainly his poetic reputation rested in the 17th and 18th centuries. He also began a version of Virgil 's Aeneid , but never produced more than the first book. In 1636 he issued his famous Paraphrase upon the Psalms and Hymns dispersed throughout the Old and New Testaments; and he translated Christ 's Passion from the Latin of Grotius ; and in 1641 he brought out his last work, a Paraphrase of the Song of Songs . He died, unmarried, at Boxley , near Maidstone, Kent , in 1644. His verse was deservedly praised by Dryden and Pope ; Milton was somewhat indebted to Sandys's Hymn to my Redeemer (inserted in his travels at the place of his visit to the Holy Sepulchre ) in his Ode on the Passion.