Sandford (surname)
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
- 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
- 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), Brigadier in the British army, who settled in Ethiopia and became an advisor to Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia
- Francis Sandford, 1st Baron Sandford (1824-1893), British civil servant and Baron Sandford
- Frank Sandford (1862-1948), the founder and leader of a Christian cult known as "The Kingdom"
- Frankie Sandford (born 1989), British singer: S Club 8, The Saturdays
- Gladys Sandford (1891-1971) first woman in New Zealand to earn a pilot's licence.
- James T. Sandford, American politician
- Sir James Wallace Sandford (1879–1958), or simply "Wallace Sandford", South Australian businessman and politician son of Alexander above.
- Jeremy Sandford (1930-2003), English television writer, musician and visionary
- John de Sandford (d. 1294), archbishop of Dublin
- John Sandford (novelist) (born 1944), American journalist and novelist
- Kenneth Sandford (1924-2004), English singer and actor
- Richard Douglas Sandford (died 1918), English recipient of the Victoria Cross
- Robert Sandford (explorer), English explorer of Carolina coast
- 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
References
- 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.
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