Charles Stanford (1823–1886), was an English Baptist minister of the nineteenth century.
In 1839, at the age of sixteen, he commenced preaching, and in October 1841 entered the Bristol Baptist College.
On 7 March 1847 he became minister of the United Presbyterian and Baptist Church at Devizes, Wiltshire, where his congregation gradually increased, and where he on 9 April 1852 opened a new chapel.
In 1860 he visited Taunton, where, and in the neighbourhood, he collected information for his work J. Alleine, his Companions and his Times, published in 1861.
From November 1881 he became almost blind from glaucoma, but prepared his work for the press with a typewriter.