Com. in chief of the forces in Ireland, 1876-75; G.C.B., 1870; Hon. D.CL. of Oxford 1870, being, in 1871, raised to the peerage as above stated during Gladstone's first premiership; General in the army, 1872. He m. 2 Nov. 1854, at Shotesham, co. Norfolk, Margaret, 4th da. of Robert Fellowes of Shotesham Park, by his second wife Jane Louisa, da. of Ralph Sheldon of Weston, co. Warwick. He d. 23 June 1876 aged 67, at 13 Grosvenor Gardens and was bur. 28th at Digswell afsd([1]) His widow, who was in 1889 elected for Brixton on the London County Council, but unseated as ineligible([2]) and who received, also in 1889, the freedom of the city of Dublin, d. 7 Jan. 1892, in Park road, Regent's park, and was bur. at Digswell afsd.
II. 1876. 2. William (Mansfield), Baron Sandhurst, 1st s. and h., b. 21 Aug. 1855; ed. at Rugby; an officer in the Coldstream Guards 1873-79; suc. to the peerage 23 June 1876; a Lord in Waiting 1880-85; Under Sec. of State for War, Kb. to Aug. 1886 and 1892-95. He m. 26 July 1881, at St. James' Westm., Victoria Alexandrina, yst. da. of Frederick (Spenser), 4th Earl Spencer, by his second wife, Adelaide Horatia Elizabeth, da. of Sir Horace Beauchamp Seymour. She (to whom Queen Victoria stood sponsor) was b. 22 Oct. 1855.
Family Estates.—These, in 1883, did not amount to 2,000 acres.
SANDON.
i.e., "Sandon of Sandon, cn. Stafford," Viscountcy (Ryder), cr. 1809, with the Earldom of Harrowby, which see.
SANDRIDGE.
i.e., "Churchill of Sandridge, co. Hertford," Burony (Churchill), cr. 1685 ; see " JlARUJOROUan," Dukedom, cr. 1702.
SANDWICH.
Earldom. I 1660 1. Edward Montagu, or Mountagu, only surv. s. and h. of Sir Sydney Montagu, of Hinchinbroke, co. Huntingdon (yr. br. of Henry, 1st Earl of Manchester), by his first wife, Paulina, da. of John Pepys.([3]) of Cottenham, co. Cambridge, was b. 27 July 1025; suc.
his father (a distinguished Royalist), 25 Sep. 1644; being previously (1643), Col. of a Reg. of foot in the Parl, army, and present at the battles of Marston Moor, Naseby,
- ↑ (a) His "independent military commands in India cannot be said to have been successful. He was unpopular and sometimes wanting in temper and judgment. He had painful and discreditable quarrels, the most damaging of which was the Court Martial on a member of his staff, against whom he brought a string of charges of peculation and falsifying accounts, not one of which, after most patient investigation, could be substantiated or justified," [Nat. Biogr. where his character drawn by Mulleaon is quoted, who, inter alia, states that] " He was not and could not become a great soldier; possessing undoubted personal courage, he was not a General at all, except in name, "adding that his" haughty and innate reserve shank from reliance on anyone but himself."
- ↑ (b) She "took a prominent part as a member of the Women's Liberal Federation in the agitation in favour of Home Rule and other measures advocated by Mr. Gladstone." [Nat. Biogr.]
- ↑ (c) The well-known Samuel Pepys, the diarist, was great nephew of this lady, being grandson of her brother, Thomas, which accounts for the keen interest he took in his cousin Sandwich's proceedings. Paulina had two brothers each named Thomas, the elder one being called "The Black" and the younger " The Red." Both are raid in the visitation of Cambridgeshire of 1681 to have died num., but both certainly had children as appears from the statement of another brother named Apollo, who also mentions Kezia, as widow of the younger. Children of Thomas aud Mary, and of Thomas (possibly the same Thomas) and Keziah are bap. at Impington. The baptism there, 1 Jan. 1000, of "John Pepes, the sone of Mr. Thomas aud Mary " is, doubtless, "1600/1," and refers to the father of the Diarist, who states (entry after 31 Dec. MM), that his father John was born U Jan. 1601. [Ex. inform. W. A. Lindsay Windsor Herald].
