William Ayshford Sanford
1818–1902
Artist, architect, and civil servant. Resided at Nynehead Court, Somerset. Matriculated at Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1837. Colonial secretary of Western Australia, 1851–5. President of the Somerset Archaeological Society. Interested in natural history; co-authored works with William Boyd Dawkins on mammalian palaeontology.
Sources
Alum. Cantab.
Burke’s landed gentry 1906
Dictionary of Australian artists
Bibliography
Alum. Cantab.: Alumni Cantabrigienses. A biographical list of all known students, graduates and holders of office at the University of Cambridge, from the earliest times to 1900. Compiled by John Venn and J. A. Venn. 10 vols. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1922–54.
Burke’s landed gentry: A genealogical and heraldic history of the commoners of Great Britain and Ireland enjoying territorial possessions or high official rank but unvisited with heritable honours. Burke’s genealogical and heraldic history of the landed gentry. By John Burke et al. 1st–18th edition. London: Henry Colburn [and others]. 1833–1969.
Dictionary of Australian artists: The dictionary of Australian artists. Painters, sketchers, photographers and engravers to 1870. Edited by Joan Kerr. Melbourne: Oxford University Press. 1992.
