Richard Hill, 7th Baron Sandys

Richard Michael Oliver Hill, 7th Baron Sandys DL (21 July 1931 – 11 February 2013), was a British landowner and Conservative politician.[1][2]

The Right Honourable

The Lord Sandys

DL
Deputy Chief Whip of the House of Lords
Captain of the Queen's Bodyguard of the Yeomen of the Guard
In office
6 May 1979 – 20 October 1982
MonarchElizabeth II
Prime MinisterMargaret Thatcher
Preceded byThe Lord Strabolgi
Succeeded byThe Earl of Swinton
Lord-in-waiting
Government Whip
In office
8 January 1974 – 4 March 1974
Prime MinisterEdward Heath
Preceded byThe Lord Strathcona and Mount Royal
Succeeded byThe Lord Jacques
Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
In office
25 November 1961 – 11 November 1999
Hereditary Peerage
Preceded byThe 6th Lord Sandys
Succeeded bySeat abolished
Personal details
Born21 July 1931
Died11 February 2013
(aged 81)
NationalityBritish
Political partyConservative
Alma materRoyal Naval College, Dartmouth
Ombersley Court

Sandys was the only son of Arthur Fitzgerald Sandys Hill, 6th Baron Sandys, and his wife Cynthia Mary (née Gascoigne), and was educated at the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth. He served with the Royal Scots Greys from 1950 to 1955, achieving the rank of Lieutenant. In 1961 he succeeded his father in the barony and took his seat on the Conservative benches in the House of Lords.

He served under Edward Heath as a Lord-in-waiting (government whip in the House of Lords) in 1974 and was an Opposition Whip in the House of Lords from 1974–79. Between 1979–82, he was Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard (Deputy Chief Whip in the House of Lords) in the first Conservative administration of Margaret Thatcher. Apart from his political career he was also a Deputy Lieutenant of Worcestershire in 1968.

Lord Sandys married Patricia, daughter of Captain Lionel Hall, in 1961. They had no children. Following the death of both Lord Sandys and his wife, the family seat of Ombersley Court was put up for sale.[3]

Arms
Coat of arms of Richard Hill, 7th Baron Sandys
Crest
1st: a Griffin segreant per fess Or and Gules (Sandys); 2nd: a Reindeer's Head couped at the neck Gules attired and plain collared Or (Hill)
Escutcheon
Quarterly: 1st and 4th, Or a Fess dancetty between three Cross Crosslets fitchy Gules (Sandys); 2nd and 3rd, Sable on a Fess Argent between three Leopards passant guardant Or spotted of the field as many Escallops Gules (Hill)
Supporters
On either side a Griffin wings elevated per fess Or and Gules gorged with a Collar dancetty of the last
Motto
Probum Non Paenitet (The honest man has not to repent) [4]

Notes
  1. "Last chapter written in Lord Sandys eventful life (From Worcester News)". Worcesternews.co.uk. 14 February 2013. Retrieved 6 March 2013.
  2. "Lord Sandys obituary Ombersley". Worcester News. Retrieved 19 April 2016.
  3. Savills blog: 'Ombersley Court to be sold for the first time in nearly 300 years', 25 May 2017.
  4. http://www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk/online/content/sandys1802.htm
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References
  • Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990,
  • Leigh Rayment's Peerage Pages
  • Who's Who 2007: An Annual Biographical Dictionary. London: A & C Black, 2007.
Political offices
Preceded by
The Lord Strabolgi		 Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard
1979–1982		 Succeeded by
The Earl of Swinton
Peerage of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
Arthur Hill		 Baron Sandys
3rd creation
1961–2013		 Succeeded by
Nicholas Hill
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