Marcus Sandys, 3rd Baron Sandys
The Lord Sandys | |
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Treasurer of the Household | |
In office 23 July 1847 – 21 February 1852 | |
Monarch | Victoria |
Prime Minister | Lord John Russell |
Preceded by | Lord Robert Grosvenor |
Succeeded by | Lord Claud Hamilton |
Personal details | |
Born | 28 January 1798 |
Died | 10 April 1863 | (aged 65)
Nationality | British |
Political party | Whig |
Spouse | Louisa Blake (d. 1886) |
Arthur Marcus Cecil Sandys, 3rd Baron Sandys (28 January 1798 – 10 April 1863), known as Lord Marcus Hill until 1860, was a British Whig politician. Lea & Perrins has claimed that Sandys encountered a precursor to Worcestershire sauce while in India with the East India Company in the 1830s, and commissioned the local apothecaries to recreate it, eventually leading to its popularity in England.
Background
[edit]Born Lord Marcus Hill, Sandys was a younger son of Arthur Hill, 2nd Marquess of Downshire, and Mary, 1st Baroness Sandys, daughter of Colonel the Hon. Martin Sandys. Arthur Hill, 3rd Marquess of Downshire, was his elder brother.
Political career
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Sandys was Member of Parliament for Newry from 1832 to 1835 and for Evesham from 1838 to 1852. He served as Comptroller of the Household under Lord Melbourne in 1841 and under Lord John Russell between 1846 and 1847 and as Treasurer of the Household under Russell between 1847 and 1852. In 1860 he succeeded his elder brother as third Baron Sandys. The following year he assumed by royal licence the surname of Sandys in lieu of Hill.
Family
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Lord Sandys married Louisa, daughter of Joseph Blake, in 1837. He died in April 1863, aged 65, and was succeeded by his eldest son, Augustus. Lady Sandys died in April 1886.
He was a godfather to Arthur Cheek, "the young martyr of Allahabad", who was given the forenames Arthur Marcus Hill in his honour.[1]
Arms
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References
[edit]- ^ Meek, Robert (1857). The Martyr of Allahabad: Memorials of Ensign Arthur Marcus Hill Cheek. London: James Nisbet & Co.
- ^ "Sandys, Baron (UK, 1802)". Cracroft's Peerage. Retrieved 13 October 2018.
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[edit]- 1798 births
- 1863 deaths
- Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Newry (1801–1918)
- Treasurers of the Household
- UK MPs 1832–1835
- UK MPs 1837–1841
- UK MPs 1841–1847
- UK MPs 1847–1852
- UK MPs who inherited peerages
- Whig (British political party) MPs for English constituencies
- Whig (British political party) MPs for Irish constituencies
- Younger sons of marquesses
- Younger sons of barons
- Hill family
- Members of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom
- Barons Sandys (1802 creation)