Daniel Sandford

Sir Daniel Keyte Sandford MP DCL (3 February 1798 – 4 February 1838) was a Scottish Greek scholar. He stood twice for parliament and briefly sat in the House of Commons from 1834 to 1835. Early life Sandford was born at 3 North Castle Street in Edinburgh, the second son of the Right Reverend Daniel Sandford, Bishop of Edinburgh. After receiving the rudiments of his education under the superintendence of his father, who died in January 1830, he was sent to the Edinburgh High School, and afterwards to the University of Edinburgh, where he distinguished himself by his progress in classical learning. In 1813 he was placed under the care and tuition of his godfather, Mr. Keyte, at Runcorn, Cheshire, and remained there for two or three years, pursuing his studies with enthusiasm and success. In 1817 Sandford was entered as a commoner of Christ Church, Oxford. At the public examination in Easter term, 1820, he was placed in the first class, in Literae Humaniores, and on 20 October, the same year, he took his degree of B.A. In 1821 he gained the Chancellor’s prize for an English essay on "The Study of Modern History" and on 25 May 1825 he proceeded to the degree of M.A., as a grand compounder. Sandford was a Freemason, and in 1818 while at Oxford he became one of the founders of the Apollo University Lodge, the principal masonic lodge for members of Oxford University.