Edwin Sandys (died 1629)

Edwin Sandys (died 1629)

Sir Edwin Sandys (pronounced "Sands") (9 December 1561 – October 1629) 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.