29 Facts About Antoinette Sandbach

Antoinette Sandbach lost her seat to her former party in the 2019 general election.

Antoinette Sandbach was born in 1969 at Queen Charlotte's Hospital Hammersmith, West London, the eldest child of an Anglo-Welsh father, Ian Mackeson-Sandbach, and a Dutch mother, Annie Marie Antoinette, who married in 1967 at St John's Cathedral in Den Bosch.

Arthur Antoinette Sandbach's grandfather was Samuel Antoinette Sandbach, a prominent merchant and slave owner in the West Indies.

Mackeson-Antoinette 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.

Antoinette Sandbach was educated at Haileybury and Imperial Service College and subsequently at the University of Nottingham, where she studied law.

Antoinette Sandbach practised as a criminal barrister in London for 13 years, latterly at 9 Bedford Row chambers.

Antoinette Sandbach was twice elected to the Bar Council in that time.

Antoinette Sandbach then ran the family farming business, Hafodunos Farms Ltd, at Llangernyw in the Elwy valley of North Wales from where she embarked on a political career.

Al Nasir was interested in how Samuel Antoinette Sandbach's fortune was derived and in particular in his activities in British Guiana.

Antoinette Sandbach 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.

Antoinette Sandbach argued that there was no public interest which outweighed the threat to her personal safety by releasing her address.

At the time of the TEDx talk, Antoinette 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.

Antoinette Sandbach was reported as having threatened legal action against Cambridge University for failing to apply their GDPR policies and their policy on naming living individuals.

On 1 September 2023, Antoinette 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.

Antoinette Sandbach specified that she would be making a complaint to the UK information commissioner.

Antoinette Sandbach claimed that she "only learned about her family history three months ago".

In March 2015, Antoinette Sandbach was selected as the Conservative Party candidate for the Conservative-held seat of Eddisbury in Cheshire, England.

Antoinette Sandbach 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.

Antoinette Sandbach was an elected executive member of the 1922 Committee of backbench Conservative MPs from 2015 to 2019.

Antoinette Sandbach has been a strong advocate for improving representation of women in the workforce, women's rights and female representation in Parliament.

Antoinette Sandbach supported the United Kingdom remaining within the European Union in the 2016 EU membership referendum.

Antoinette Sandbach retained the Eddisbury seat at the 2017 general election, with a majority of 11,942.

Antoinette Sandbach was one of 11 Conservative MPs to rebel against then Prime Minister Theresa May's government in voting for an amendment to the European Union Act 2018 on 13 December 2017, which guaranteed MPs a vote on the final Brexit deal agreed with the European Union.

Antoinette Sandbach endorsed Rory Stewart during the 2019 Conservative leadership election.

Ms Antoinette 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.

Antoinette Sandbach commented that the local Conservatives were "an unrepresentative handful of people" and they should not get to decide the question.

On 31 October 2019, it was announced that Antoinette Sandbach would stand in her constituency as a Liberal Democrat candidate.

Antoinette Sandbach separated from Sacha's father in 2003 and moved back to her family estate in 2005.

Antoinette Sandbach lost a five-day-old son, Sam, to sudden infant death syndrome in 2009 and married Matthew Sherratt, a sculptor, in 2012.