He was a Progressive Conservative member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1948 to 1967 who represented the riding of Hastings West.

[1] He was superintendent of a senior care facility in Belleville, Ontario for 20 years.

He also served as president of the Belleville Agricultural Society for four years.

[2] He married Beatrice Evelyn Lightle (born 1898) on April 25, 1918, in Northumberland County but she died in 1922.

[5] The marriage certificate describes Sandercock as a "widower" and "butter maker".