John Douglas Sandford (3 August 1832 – 26 May 1892) was an English first-class cricketer and a judicial official in the Indian Civil Service.
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| Full name | John Douglas Sandford | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 3 August 1832 Chillingham, Northumberland, England | ||||||||||||||
| Died | 26 May 1892 (aged 59) Windsor, Berkshire, England | ||||||||||||||
| Batting | Unknown | ||||||||||||||
| Relations | Ernest Sandford (brother) Temple Sandford (nephew) | ||||||||||||||
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| Years | Team | ||||||||||||||
| 1855–1856 | Oxford University | ||||||||||||||
| 1869 | Marylebone Cricket Club | ||||||||||||||
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Source: Cricinfo, 15 April 2020 | |||||||||||||||
Biography
editThe son of future Archdeacon of Coventry John Sandford,[1] he was born in August 1832 at Chillingham, Northumberland. He was educated at Rugby School,[2] before going up to Trinity College, Oxford.[3] While studying at Oxford, he made two appearances in first-class cricket for Oxford University against the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) in 1855 and 1856.[4]
After graduating from Oxford, Sandford joined the Indian Civil Service in 1856, where he served in the North-Western Provinces and rose up the judicial system in British India to become the judicial commissioner of Burma and Mysore.[5] He returned to England in 1868, where became a student of the Inner Temple at the age of 36, and was called to the bar in June 1870.[6] The year following his return to England, and thirteen years after his previous appearance in first-class cricket, Sandford played a first-class match for the MCC against Oxford University at Oxford.[4] After being called to the bar, he returned to British India where he practiced as a barrister until his departure in 1882. He retired two years later in 1884.[5] Sandford died in May 1892 at Windsor, Berkshire.[2]
Born into and ecclesiastical family, his younger brother, Ernest, was the Archdeacon of Exeter (in addition to being a first-class cricketer), and his elder brother, Charles, who was the Bishop of Gibraltar.[7] His grandfather, Daniel Sandford, was the Bishop of Edinburgh. His nephew, Temple Sandford, was also a first-class cricketer.
References
edit- ^ "John Douglas Sandford". www.thepeerage.com. Retrieved 16 April 2020.
- ^ a b Mitchell, A. T. (1902). Rugby School Register 1842–1874. Vol. 2. A. J. Lawrence. p. 38.
- ^ Foster, Joseph (1888–1892). . Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715–1886. Oxford: Parker and Co – via Wikisource.
- ^ a b "First-Class Matches played by John Sandford". CricketArchive. Retrieved 16 April 2020.
- ^ a b Buckland, C. E. (1971). Dictionary of Indian Biography. Ardent Media. p. 373.
- ^ Foster, Joseph (1885). Men-at-the-bar. Reeves and Turner. pp. 430.
- ^ Obituary The Bishop Of Gibraltar The Times Thursday, 10 December 1903; p. 8; Issue 37260; col C