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Name: SANDFORD, Humphrey
Birth Date: 20 May 1856 Shrewsbury
Death Date: 7 Jan 1952 Bicton, Shrewsbury
First Date: 1914
Area: Naivasha
Married: In Newport, Mon. 30 June 1886 Phoebe Isabella Evans b. 10 May 1853 Chepstow, d. 2 Feb 1950 Shrewsbury
Children: Phoebe Mary E. (1890 Pontypool-1975); Elizabeth (22 July 1892 Pontypool-1968)
Book Reference: Gazette, Fox Davies
General Information:
Gazette - 7/4/15 - Liable for Jury service, Naivasha - H. Sandford (British), Settler, Gilgil
Barnes - EAMR - Humphrey Sandford, Trooper
Fox Davies - Humphrey Sandford, eldest son of Humphrey Sandford of Shrewsbury, b. May 20 1856
Cambridge Univ Alumni: pens. at ST JOHN'S, May 2, 1876. [Eldest] s. of Humphrey (above), barrister-at-law (and Anne Taylor, dau. of Joseph Armitage, of Milnsbridge House, Yorks.). B. [May 20, 1856], at Shrewsbury. Bapt. July 9, 1856. School, Shrewsbury. Matric. Michs. 1876; B.A. 1880; M.A. 1883. Rowing ‘blue,’ 1879, 1880, 1881. Of The Isle of Rossall, Salop. J.P. for Salop, 1895. Served in the Boer War, 1899-1901 (with the Gloucestershire Yeomanry). High Sheriff of Shropshire, 1925-6. Married, June 30, 1886, Phoebe Isabella, eldest dau. of James Evans, of Chepstow, and had issue. Died Jan. 7, 1952. Brother of Folliott (1879). (Shrewsbury Sch. Reg.; Book of Blues; Burke, L.G.; Walford, County Families; Kelly, Handbook; The Times, Jan. 8, 1952.)