Christopher Sandford


Christopher Sandford of Eye Manor, Herefordshire, was a book designer, proprietor of the Golden Cockerel Press, a founding director of the Folio Society, and husband of the wood engraver and pioneer Corn dolly revivalist, Lettice Sandford, née Mackintosh Rate. During the war he organised preparations for underground resistance from Eye Manor in the event of a Nazi invasion.

Biography

He was born in Cork, Ireland, son of Professor Arthur Wellesley Sandford and Mary Carbery, the English author. On a skiing holiday in Switzerland he met the engraver Lettice Sandford and they were married in 1929. Their son is playwright and musician, Jeremy Sandford.