Charles Waldegrave Sandford (1828–1903), Bishop of Gibraltar

Charles Waldegrave Sandford (1828–1903) was the fourth Bishop of Gibraltar. He was born in 1828 into an ecclesiastical family and educated at

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. Later he was a

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before his elevation to the

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. A Sub-Prelate of the

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, he died on 8 December 1903.''Obituary The Bishop Of Gibraltar''

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Thursday, 10 December 1903; p. 8; Issue 37260; col C His grandfather

Daniel Sandford (bishop of Edinburgh) Daniel Sandford, M.A., D.D. (1766 – 14 January 1830) was an Irish-born Anglican clergyman who served in the Scottish Episcopal Church as the Bishop of Edinburgh from 1806 until 1830. Life Sandford was born in 1766 at Delville, near Dublin, ...

and first cousin

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was also Anglican

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Publications

Sandford, C. W. (1886) Our church in Cyprus: a sermon. Oxford & London: Parker and Co.

Notes

1828 births Alumni of Christ Church, Oxford People educated at Rugby School 19th-century Anglican bishops of Gibraltar 20th-century Anglican bishops of Gibraltar 1903 deaths Sub-Prelates of the Venerable Order of Saint John {{ChurchofEngland-bishop-stub