Edwin Sandys
Edwin Sandys was born on December 9, 1561. See ranking, bio blurb, and everyone else born that day.
About Edwin Sandys
Sir Edwin Sandys ( SANDZ; 9 December 1561 – October 1629) was an English politician who was a member of 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 1607 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 (the Virginia Company's second colony) is named after him.