[Illustration] A family of acknowledged antiquity, whose ancestor
Richard de Sanford was certainly seated at Sandford soon after the
Conquest, and which has ever since remained their principal seat; it
is in the parish of Prees, and is mentioned by Leland in his
Itinerary. The Herald of the eighteenth century, and the late
excellent Bishop of Edinburgh, were both of this family.
Younger Branch. Sandford of the Isle House near Shrewsbury, parted
from the parent stem in the fifteenth century, and who also by
marriage represent the ancient Shropshire families of Sprenghose and
Winsbury.
See Eyton's Shropshire, ix. p. 221; and Blakeway, pp. 54, 190, 222.
ARMS.--_Quarterly per fess indented azure and ermine_. The Sandfords
of the Isle bear, _Party per chevron sable and ermine, in chief two
boar's heads couped close or_.
Present Representative, Thomas Hugh Sandford, Esq.