[9] Geraldine's estates included Hafodunos near Abergele and Bryngwyn Hall near Llanfyllin, as well as a 4,000 acre logwood plantation in Jamaica.
Mackeson-Sandbach became adept at farming and improved the family properties in north and central Wales, where he was influential in the forestry community during the timber shortage in the post-war years.
[12] Antoinette Sandbach was educated at Haileybury and Imperial Service College[13] and subsequently at the University of Nottingham, where she studied law.
She complained to Cambridge University about perceived inaccuracies in Al Nasir's work and she asserted that she had a right to be forgotten given the relative shortness of her parliamentary career.
At the time of the TEDx talk, Sandbach was in court to give evidence against a former police officer who had harassed and threatened to kill her because of her views on Brexit.
[18] On 1 September 2023, Sandbach appeared on Times Radio where she asserted that her complaint related to "concerns for her personal safety" and that she did not object to being linked to her family's slavery history.
Sandbach contested the Delyn parliamentary constituency in the 2010 general election, but lost again, though achieving a larger swing of 6.7% from Labour to Conservative.
[21] She held the safe Conservative seat with a majority of nearly 13,000, and promptly resigned from the Welsh Assembly, to be succeeded by Janet Haworth.
[23] Sandbach was appointed to the joint committee examining the failure of Carillion and was highly critical of the lack of oversight by the auditors and directors of the company.
[25] Following a debate in the House of Commons in November 2015, she helped set up the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Baby Loss, of which she was appointed co-chair.
The group worked with all the major child loss charities to develop the national bereavement care pathway which has since been adopted by 108 NHS trusts in England.
[26] Ms Sandbach secured a £1.5 million grant for a new counselling centre at Alder Hey Children's Hospital in Liverpool, the hospital which provided support for her after the loss of her son [27] Sandbach has been a strong advocate for improving representation of women in the workforce, women's rights and female representation in Parliament.
[35] Ms Sandbach was one of a number of female MPs, including Nicky Morgan MP and Anna Soubry MP who went public about the increasing threats received by female MPs featuring in the ITV documentary "Exposed" filmed in 2019 [36] On 15 October 2019. the members of the Eddisbury Conservative Association passed a motion of no confidence in her.
[15] She lost a five-day-old son, Sam, to sudden infant death syndrome in 2009[7] and married Matthew Sherratt, a sculptor, in 2012.