Sandford is an English language toponymic surname, deriving from numerous localities named for a sandy ford.[1]
| Origin | |
|---|---|
| Language(s) | Old English |
| Meaning | sandy ford |
| Region of origin | England, Scotland |
| Other names | |
| Variant form(s) | Sanford, St Fort |
St Fort in Fife, originally Sandforde or Sandford,[2][3] is a Scottish origin of the name.[4]
Notable Sandfords edit
- 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 edit
References edit
- ^ Cottle, Basil (1978). The Penguin Dictionary of Surnames. London: Penguin Books Ltd. p. 330.
Sandford local name 'sandy ford' Old English; places in eleven counties
- ^ "Fife Place-name Data :: St Fort". fife-placenames.glasgow.ac.uk.
- ^ "Fife Place-name Data :: Ploughlands Of St Fort". fife-placenames.glasgow.ac.uk.
- ^ Black, George F. (1946). The Surnames of Scotland (1993 ed.). Edinburgh: New York Public Library/Birlinn. p. 710. ISBN 1-874744-07-6.
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.