Folliott Sandford (priest)

The Ven Folliott George Sandford (b Sheffield 26 April 1861-d Tickhill^[1] 14 July 1945^[2]) was the inaugural Archdeacon of Doncaster.^[3]

He was born into an ecclesiastical family^[4] and educated at Sheffield Collegiate School and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.^[5] He was ordained in 1884 and his first post was as a Curate at Sheffield Parish Church. In 1888 he married Rosamond Mary Blakelock^[6] and also became Rector of Holy Trinity Church, Goodramgate, York.^[7] He became Vicar of St Andrew’s Sharrow in 1893;^[8] and Vicar and Rural Dean of Huddersfield in 1903. He was Chaplain to the 2nd Duke of Wellington’s West Riding Regiment; from 1903 to 1905; Chaplain to the Queen's Own Yorkshire Dragoons from 1905 onwards He was Vicar of Doncaster from 1905 to^[9] 1928; Rural Dean of Doncaster from 1910 to1919; Prebendary of Dunnington^[10] in York Minster from 1909 to 1914; Archdeacon of Doncaster from 1913 to 1941 and Chaplain to the Corporation of Doncaster during the same period; and an Honorary Canon of Sheffield Cathedral from 1914.

References

1. Tickhill History Society
2. Deaths. The Times (London, England), Tuesday, Jul 17, 1945; pg. 1; Issue 50196
3. Doncaster History
4. His father was The Rev George Sandford, MA, sometime Vicar of Ecclesall > ‘SANDFORD, Ven. Folliott George’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2012 ; online edn, Oct 2012 accessed 10 Oct 2013
5. UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE The Leeds Mercury Leeds, England), Monday, January 28, 1884; Issue 14291
6. MARRIAGE OF THE REV. F. G. SANDFORD The Sheffield & Rotherham Independent (Sheffield, England), Wednesday, June 13, 1888; pg. 5; Issue 10541
7. History of York
8. LOCAL INTELLIGENCE The Sheffield & Rotherham Independent (Sheffield, England), Tuesday, February 14, 1893; pg. 7; Issue 12010
9. Fifty years of Sheffield Church LIfe
10. London Gazette