Sandford (surname) explained

Sandford
Meaning:	sandy ford
Region:	England, Scotland
Language origin:	Old English
Variant:	Sanford, St Fort

Sandford is an English language toponymic surname, deriving from numerous localities named for a sandy ford.^[1]

St Fort in Fife, originally Sandforde or Sandford,^{[2] [3]} is a Scottish origin of the name.^[4]

Notable Sandfords

• Alexander Wallace Sandford Australian businessman and politician
• Ben Sandford (born 1979), skeleton racer from New Zealand
• Chris Sandford (born 1939), English actor and writer on fly-fishing
• Christopher Sandford (1902–1983), Anglo-Irish private press owner, father of Jeremy Sandford
• Christopher Sandford (biographer) (born 1956), English journalist and biographer
• Daniel Fox Sandford (1831–1906), Bishop of Tasmania from 1883 until 1889
• Daniel Sandford (journalist), BBC Home Affairs Correspondent
• Daniel Sandford (bishop of Edinburgh), (1766–1830), Bishop of Edinburgh
• Daniel Sandford (soldier), (1882–1972), British army Brigadier, later, advisor to Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia
• Elliott Sandford (1840–1897), Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Utah Territory
• Francis Sandford, 1st Baron Sandford (1824–1893), British civil servant and Baron Sandford
• Frank Sandford (1862–1948), the founder of "The Kingdom", a christian cult
• Frankie Sandford (born 1989), British singer: S Club 8, The Saturdays
• Gladys Sandford (1891–1971) first licensed woman pilot in New Zealand
• James T. Sandford, American politician
• Sir James Wallace Sandford (1879–1958), Australian businessman and politician, son of Alexander Wallace Sandford
• Jeremy Sandford (1930–2003), English television writer, musician and visionary
• John de Sandford (died 1294), archbishop of Dublin
• John Sandford (novelist) (born 1944), American journalist and novelist
• Kenneth Sandford (1924–2004), English singer and actor
• Lettice Sandford (1902–1993), draftsman, wood-engraver, and watercolourist, mother of Jeremy Sandford
• Richard Sandford (died 1918), English recipient of the Victoria Cross
• Robert Sandford (explorer), English explorer of Carolina coast
• Roc Sandford (born 1957), English owner of Gometra island, son of Jeremy Sandford
• Teddy Sandford (1910–1995), English footballer
• Thomas Sandford (1762–1808), American soldier and politician
• Tiny Sandford (1894–1961), burly actor who starred in Laurel and Hardy and Charlie Chaplin films

See also

• Khalifa St. Fort
• Sandford (disambiguation)
• Sanford (surname)

Notes and References

1. Book: Cottle , Basil . Basil Cottle . 1978 . The Penguin Dictionary of Surnames . London . . 330 . Sandford local name 'sandy ford' Old English; places in eleven counties.
2. Web site: Fife Place-name Data :: St Fort. fife-placenames.glasgow.ac.uk.
3. Web site: Fife Place-name Data :: Ploughlands Of St Fort. fife-placenames.glasgow.ac.uk.
4. Book: Black, George F.. George Fraser Black. The Surnames of Scotland. 1946. New York Public Library/Birlinn. Edinburgh. 1-874744-07-6. 710. 1993. SANDFORD. From Sandford, now St. Fort in the parish of Forgan, Fife. William de Sandfor witnessed a charter of part of the lands of Carrecros (= Cairncross), c. 1239... Thomas Sandfurd was slain in 1538... The form Santford with unvoiced t due to the following f is the source of the popular etymology of the place name from a mythical St. Fort..