Background
Sandys was the son of James Sandys, of Slade House, Stroud, Gloucestershire, and was educated at Clifton College and Pembroke College, Oxford.
Sandys was the son of James Sandys, of Slade House, Stroud, Gloucestershire, and was educated at Clifton College and Pembroke College, Oxford.
Pembroke College.
He was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in the 5th Dragoon Guards, and served in the South African War (1899–1901) with the Glamorgan Yeomanry, receiving a promotion to Lieutenant 28 August 1901. After the war he transferred to the 2nd Life Guards, leaving the army in 1905, but rejoined to serve in the British Expeditionary Force in the First World War, during which he was wounded. He later joined the diplomatic service, serving as an Honorary Attaché in the British Legation in Berne (1921-1922) and Paris (1922-1925).
He died in Antibes, France.
30th United Kingdom Parliament]
Sandys was a Member of Parliament for Wells from 1910 to 1918.