William Sambach

Sir William Sambach (c. l601-1653) was an English-born lawyer and politician of the seventeenth century who spent much of his career in Ireland, but was driven back to England by the political turmoil of the 1640s, and died there.

Since that family preserved a collection of his papers[2] it is likely that they were related to the Sandbachs of Tarporley, Cheshire, later famous as the owners of Hafodunos Hall.

[3] From the early 1630s onwards he was a key member of the entourage of Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford, the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, to whom he seems to have been personally close.

Precisely when he stepped down as Solicitor General is unclear: in the confusion of the times, the office simply seems to have lapsed, and he was not replaced until 1657.

[5] He lived at Balyna, near Moyvalley, County Kildare:[5] in 1642 he petitioned the Crown for redress for the great loss he had suffered through attacks on his lands by the rebels, which he estimated at £33800, an enormous sum at the time.