These " tribes " were areas of land partitioned off to the " adventurers " ( investors ) of the Company – Devonshire, Hamilton, Paget, Pembroke, Sandys, Smith's, Southampton and Warwick ( thus far, this usage of the word " tribes " is unique to the Bermuda example ).

He has another child, Laura Sandys, Conservative Member of Parliament for Thanet South, by his second wife Marie Claire Schmitt, although Laura is often reported incorrectly to be ' related to Winston Churchill '.

Sandys is said to have had a large share in securing the Mastership of the Temple Church in London for Hooker.

Also accredited to Sandys is an increase in women sent to the colonies, for the purpose of encouraging men to marry and start families, which ostensibly would motivate them to work harder.

King Henry VIII acquired the manor of Chelsea from Lord Sandys in 1536 ; Chelsea Manor Street is still extant.

Ramsgate is in the parliamentary constituency of Thanet South represented by Conservative MP Laura Sandys who won the seat in the 2010 general election.

Soames was born in Croydon and is a grandson of British wartime Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill, the son of Lord and Lady Soames, a nephew of the former Defence Secretary Duncan Sandys, Diana Churchill, the journalist Randolph Churchill and the actress and dancer Sarah Churchill and a great-nephew of the founders of the Scout movement, Robert Baden-Powell and Olave Baden-Powell.

Baron Sandys is a title that has been created three times, once in the Peerage of England, once in the Peerage of Great Britain and once in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.

As a descendant of the third Marquess of Downshire Lord Trevor is in remainder to this peerage and its subsidiary titles as well as to the barony of Sandys.

The island is owned by Richard Hill, 7th Baron Sandys and has not been permanently inhabited since the 1960s.

In its current form it is of Cornish origin, and it was first published in Carols Ancient and Modern ( 1823 ) and Gilbert and Sandys Carols ( 1833 ), both of which were edited by William B. Sandys and arranged, edited and with extra lyrics written by Davies Gilbert Hymns and Carols of God.

* Duncan Sandys ( 1908-1987 ), British politician whose name is pronounced " Sands "

* Laura Sandys, British politician whose name is pronounced " Sands "

Sandys is a surname ( now usually pronounced ' Sands '), and may refer to

She is the second child of Edwin Duncan Sandys, Baron Duncan-Sandys and Diana Churchill, and a granddaughter of the statesman Sir Winston Churchill.

The main body of evidence against Doughty is referenced in manuscripts found in the British Library and compiled in William Sandys Wright Vaux's edition of The World Encompassed.

A variant of its parent tune " Greensleeves ", the earliest printed version of " I Saw Three Ships " is from the 17th century, possibly Derbyshire, and was also published by William B. Sandys in 1833.

There is the tomb of Archbishop Sandys of York ( died 1588 ).

He was born at Leicester on 19 May 1844, a son of the Reverend Timothy Sandys of the Church Missionary Society and Rebecca ( née Swain ).

Sandys sat in the later parliaments of James I as MP for Sandwich in 1621, and for Kent in 1624.

A valkyrie speaks with a raven ( 1862 ) by Anthony Frederick Augustus Sandys

The navigation works on the Avon were originally authorised by an Order in Council and Letters Patent of Charles I in 1635, which named William Sandys as the grantee, with powers to improve both this river and the River Teme.

Translations of classical poetry also became more widespread, with the versions of Ovid's Metamorphoses by Arthur Golding ( 1565 – 67 ) and George Sandys ( 1626 ), and Chapman's translations of Homer's Iliad ( 1611 ) and Odyssey ( c. 1615 ), among the outstanding examples.

According to William Hutchinson a commission, had been issued in 1576 or 1577 to examine matters of complaint against him, but had proved ineffectual because the Earl of Huntingdon and Matthew Hutton sided with the dean against the third commissioner, Sandys.

In conjunction with John Edwin Sandys, Nettleship revised and edited Oskar Seyffert's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, and he contributed to a volume entitled Essays on the Endowment of Research an article on " The Present Relations between Classical Research and Classical Education in England ," in which he pointed out the great value of the professorial lecture in Germany.

Sandys continued as a minister at the Commonwealth Relations Office, later combining it with the Colonies Office, until the Conservative government fell from power in 1964.

Ferrar entered the Parliament of England and worked with Sir Edwin Sandys.

Sandys had been connected with the East India Company before 1614, and took an active part in its affairs until 1629.

George Sandys stated that the Sphinx was a harlot ; Balthasar de Monconys interpreted the headdress as a kind of hairnet, while François de La Boullaye-Le Gouz's Sphinx had a rounded hairdo with bulky collar.

It was improved from there to a short distance below Hereford by Sir William Sandys in the early 1660s with locks to enable vessels to pass weirs.

Brian Annesley was an elderly former follower of Queen Elizabeth, a wealthy Kentishman with three daughters: Grace ( married to Sir John Wildgose ), Christian ( the wife of William Sandys, 3rd Baron Sandys ), and the youngest, the unmarried Cordell.

A selection from his Essays and Addresses, and a subsequent volume, Life and Letters of Sir Richard Claverhouse Jebb ( with critical introduction by A. W. Verrall ) were published by his widow in 1907 ; see also an appreciative notice by J. E. Sandys, History of Classical Scholarship, iii.

A valkyrie speaks with a raven in a 19th century illustration of the Old Norse poem Hrafnsmál (" raven song ") by Anthony Frederick Augustus Sandys

In the General election of 6 May 2010, Ladyman once again stood as the Labour Party candidate for Thanet South, however he was defeated by Conservative candidate Laura Sandys who took the seat with a majority of over 7, 600.

The manor was anciently in the families of Bussel and Zouche: in 1490 it was granted to Sir Reginald Bray, from whom it descended, by a female heir, to the family of Sandys: in 1729, it was purchased with the manor of Leadbourne, by Lord Viscount Limerick, of a Mr. Legoe, who inherited them from the family of Wigg.

He was part of a faction within the company with Sir Edwin Sandys, who eventually became the Treasurer, and worked tirelessly to support the struggling venture.

He always wrote with a remarkable smoothness, which marks him, with Edmund Waller and George Sandys, as one of the pioneers of the classic reformation of English verse.

Richard Hooper's edition, with memoir, of The Poetical Works of George Sandys.

But on 4 May he sent the matter to the House of Lords, troublesome timing because ( as Sandys had already argued ) the upper house was preoccupied, with efforts to undermine George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham.

He was the author of An Introduction to Aristotle's Rhetoric ( 1867 ), a standard work ; The Rhetoric of Aristotle, with a commentary, revised and edited by JE Sandys ( 1877 ); translations of Plato's Gorgias ( 2nd ed., 1884 ) and Phaedo ( revised by H Jackson, 1875 ).

Although Sir Thomas Gates was later hailed by Sir Edwin Sandys as the " principle forwarder " of the London Virginia Company, Captain John Smith wrote in his General Historie that, when in 1605-06 the Jamestown expedition was making no progress, Wingfield got it moving: " Captain Bartholomew Gosnold second cousin, one of the first movers of this plantation, having many years solicited many of his friends, but found small assistance ; Gosnold at last prevailed with some gentlemen, Capt John Smith, Mr. Edward-Maria Wingfield, Mr. Reverend Robert Hunt, and diverse others, who depended a year upon his projects, but nothing could be effected, till by their great charge and industry, it came to be apprehended by certain of the Nobility, Gentry and Merchants, so that His Majesty by his letters patents, gave permission for establishing Councils, to direct here ; and to govern, and to execute there.