William Ayshford Sanford
| William Ayshford Sanford | |||||||||
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| Born | 1818 | ||||||||
| Died | 1902 | ||||||||
| Residence | Nynehead Court, Wellington, Somerset; and 14 Cavendish Square, W. | ||||||||
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Nynehead belonged to Sanfords since 1590
William Ayshford (4th) 1818-1902.
He was educated at Eaton and Cambridge and was for a time employed in the Colonial Service. His special interest was geology and natural history and he published works of research on these subjects. The County Gazette records a lecture of his in the Town Hall in 1858, two years after his return from his foreign service. As has already been noted he was the author of “Points in the History of Nynehead”. He was a J.P. for Somerset and Devon, Deputy Lieutenant for Somerset and President of the Somerset Archaeological and Natural History Society. His extensive ownership of land in Devon and Somerset and generosity to tenants made him the obvious holder of the Presidency of the County Agricultural Association.
In 1857 he married Ellen Seymour and their children followed rapidly. Their first child Ellen Henrietta (1858) married Charles Pole-Carew in 1886. The heir Edward Charles Ayshford followed (1859-1923) Then came Mary Ethel – Ettie- (1860-1941) who married the 3rd Lord Methuen in 1884, Blanche Clotilde (1862-1936), Henry Seymour John (1863- ) and Rosalind (1864- 1935) who married in 1894 as his second wife, Sir Sydney Shippard.
Ellen died in 1867 and in 1874 William married Sarah Hervey who lived only three years afterwards. So Blanche who did not marry would have between alone with her father after Rosalind married, except when Edward was with them before his own marriage.
They seem to have been a cheerful, affectionate, family. ... [Notes on the History of Nynehead Court by Margaret Ruth Whitaker, 1979]
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