Edwin Sandys (Parliamentarian)

Edwin Sandys (1612 – December 1642) was an English Colonel in the Parlmentarian Army under Robert Devereux, 3rd Earl of Essex at the start of the First English Civil War. He was educated at Wadham College, Oxford and lived at the family seat in Northbourne, Kent. He is known for leading troops in the Iconoclasm and Looting of Canterbury Cathedral and Rochester Cathedral, which were the first attacks on cathedrals by parliamentary soldiers. Sandys was also a key leader in fighting in the first battle of the First English Civil War.

There have been two baronetcies created for members of the Sandys family, both in the Baronetage of England. Both creations are extinct.