Antoinette Sandbach
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Antoinette Sandbach MP |
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| Member of Parliament for Eddisbury |
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Assumed office 7 May 2015 |
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| Preceded by | Stephen O'Brien |
| Majority | 12,974 (27.4%) |
| Member of the Welsh Assembly for North Wales |
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In office 6 May 2011 – 8 May 2015 |
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| Preceded by | Brynle Williams |
| Succeeded by | Janet Haworth |
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Antoinette Geraldine Mackeson-Sandbach 15 February 1969 Hafodunos, United Kingdom |
| Political party | Conservative |
| Spouse(s) | Matt |
| Children | Sacha Sam |
| Alma mater | University of Nottingham |
| Website | Official website |
Antoinette Geraldine Mackeson-Sandbach (born 15 February 1969), known in politics as Antoinette Sandbach, is a Conservative Party politician who was elected as the Member of Parliament for Eddisbury at the 2015 general election. The following day, 8 May 2015, she resigned as the Welsh Assembly Member for the North Wales region. having been elected as a North Wales regional Assembly Member at the May 2011 election.
Her family has farmed the Hafodunos estate in the Elwy valley of North Wales for six generations. She was educated at Haileybury and Imperial Service College and the University of Nottingham. The eldest of four sisters, she practised law under her birth name of Antoinette Mackeson-Sandbach, but dropped the Mackeson when she entered politics. She was a criminal barrister in London for 12 years. Her daughter Sacha was born in 2002 but she split from Sacha's father in 2003 and moved back to Hafodunos in 2005. She lost a 5-day-old son, Sam, to SIDS in 2009 and is married to Matt, a sculptor.
Sandbach made a speech at a Save the Rhino fundraiser in 2007 that led to suggestions that she should enter politics. She rang the Tory office in Colwyn Bay and within three months was standing for the Welsh Assembly in Delyn (Flintshire). She then used her legal experience in a part-time job with Clwyd West MP David Jones.
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