Christopher Sandford of Eye Manor

Eye Manor

Eye Manor, at Eye, Herefordshire, is a Grade I listed Carolean manor house between Ludlow and Leominster that is considered amongst the finest small Restoration houses in England with important plasterwork ceilings.-History:...

, Herefordshire, was a book designer, proprietor of the Golden Cockerel Press

Golden Cockerel Press

Golden Cockerel Press was a major English private press operating between 1920 and 1961.The Press was founded by Harold Midgley Taylor in 1920 and was first in Waltham St Lawrence in Berkshire where he had unsuccessfully tried fruit farming...

, a founding director of the Folio Society

Folio Society

The Folio Society is a book club based in London that produces new editions of classic books. Their books are notable for their high quality bindings and original illustrations...

, and husband of the wood engraver and pioneer Corn dolly

Corn dolly

Corn dollies or corn mothers are a form of straw work made as part of harvest customs of Europe before mechanization.Before Christianisation, in traditional pagan European culture it was believed that the spirit of the corn lived amongst the crop, and that the harvest made it effectively homeless...

 revivalist, Lettice Sandford

Lettice Sandford

Lettice Sandford, née Mackintosh Rate, was a draftsman, wood-engraver, pioneer corn dolly revivalist and watercolourist of her beloved Herefordshire...

, née Mackintosh Rate.

Biography

He was born in Cork

Cork (city)

Cork is the second largest city in the Republic of Ireland and the island of Ireland's third most populous city. It is the principal city and administrative centre of County Cork and the largest city in the province of Munster. Cork has a population of 119,418, while the addition of the suburban...

, Ireland, son of Professor Arthur Wellesley Sandford and Mary Carbery

Mary Carbery

Mary Carbery , pen name and married name of Mary Vanessa Toulmin, who married first Algernon, 9th Baron Carbery of Castle Freke, County Cork, Ireland and second Professor Arthur Wellesley Sandford of Frankfield House, County Cork, Ireland. She was born and spent her childhood at Childwickbury...

, the Irish author. He was the father of the playwright and musician, Jeremy Sandford

Jeremy Sandford

Jeremy Sandford was an English television screenwriter who came to prominence in 1966 with Cathy Come Home, his controversial entry in BBC1's The Wednesday Play anthology strand which was directed by Ken Loach...

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