Baron Sandys

It passed through several generations of his descendants until it fell into abeyance circa 1683 at the death of the eighth Baron,[1][2] in which state it has remained since.

She was succeeded according to the special remainder by her second son Lord Arthur Moyses William, the second Baron.

Lord Sandys notably served as Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard between 1979 and 1983 in the Conservative administration of Margaret Thatcher.

He died on 11 February 2013[5] and was succeeded in the peerage, under the terms of the special remainder, by the ninth Marquess of Downshire.

[6] The traditional burial place of the family is the Sandys Mausoleum in the churchyard of St Andrew, Ombersley.