John Sandford

John Douglas Sandford (3 August 1832 – 26 May 1892) was an English first-class cricketer and a judicial official in the Indian Civil Service.

Biography The son of future Archdeacon of Coventry John Sandford, he was born in August 1832 at Chillingham, Northumberland. He was educated at Rugby School, before going up to Trinity College, Oxford. 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.

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. 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. 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. His grandfather, Daniel Sandford, was the Bishop of Edinburgh. His nephew, Temple Sandford, was also a first-class cricketer.