Julia Sands Chase

Middletown, RI ? Mrs. Robert A. Chase, the former Julia Sands Dickson, died Monday, August 7, 2006 at home.She was the daughter of the late Mrs. Julia Parker Sands Dickson of Newport and the late Paul Roland Dickson of Cincinnati, Ohio. She was the sister of the late Charles Roland ?Bunty? Dickson. The granddaughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Frederic Parker Sands of Newport and New York. He was one of the best amateur yachtsmen in this part of the country and was instrumental in making Newport the yachting center it is today. He along with Ogden Goelet and Woodbury Kane organized the Newport Yacht Racing fund, afterwards turning it over to the Newport Yacht Racing Association. He was a Charter member and Vice-Commodore of the R.I. Yacht Club, Commodore of the Warwick Yacht Club and Officer-in-Charge of the Newport Station Number 6 of the New York Yacht Club. Her Great Grandfather, Dr. Austin Ledyard Sands was an Original Incorporator and Original Medical Board of the Newport Hospital in 1873.The family is written up in William the Conquerors 1086 commissioned ?Doomesday Book?. Ulnod, a Saxon, with his family and followers settled on the Isle of Wight after coming down from Jutland, Denmark in the Seventh Century. During the reign of Edward the Confessor they took the surname of Sands, Sandes, Sandis and Sandys. The Saxon of the Saxons was the family of Sands which is now the Anglo-Saxon heritage. From this man was descended Lord Edwin Sandys, the Archbishop of York. Sir Edwin, during the reign of Elizabeth the First, owned Scrooby Manor where he befriended the Pilgrims and let them worship in defiance of the government controlled church. He was the author of all the Charters of the London Virginia Company. He wrote the Code of Establishment for the House of Burgesses in Virginia and the Charter for the Mayflower Company. He loaned the Pilgrims one thousand pounds for five years without interest. Mrs. Chase traced her direct lineage back to the 1300s through Lord Edwin Sandys. She graduated from the Girls Preparatory School and continued her studies in Latin and French with the Mother Superior of the Cenacle Convent on Washington Street. While living in New York she studied window display and interior design.She was a member of Spouting Rock Beach Association, the Clambake Club of Newport, and The Redwood Library and Athenaeum, Save the Bay, The Preservation Society of Newport and served for many years as an officer and on the board of the Newport Garden Club. She was a life-member of the National Anti-Vivisection Society and a life-member of the Cow Neck Peninsula Historical Society housed in her Great, Great, Great Grandfather John Sands the 3rd home built in 1735 in Sands Point , Long Island. She was for many years a member of the Ida Lewis Yacht Club, The Newport Art Museum, The Historical Society; the ASPCA and The English Speaking Union. Besides her husband, Robert Chase, she leaves a first-cousin Mrs.Elizabeth Sands Bolles of Portsmouth.Her funeral will be held on Saturday, August 12, 2006, at 11:00 a.m. in St. Columbas The Berkeley Memorial Chapel, 55 Vaucluse Avenue, Middletown, with the burial in the family plot immediately following.Calling hours are omitted.Memorial donations may be made to Save The Bay, 100 Save The Bay Drive, Providence, RI, 02905. All donations will be matched by the Estate of Mrs. Chase.