Erskine Douglas Sandford FRSE (31 July 1793 – 4 September 1861) was a 19th-century Scottish advocate and legal author.
He was born at 22 South Frederick Street in Edinburgh's New Town, then a new house, on 31 July 1793 the son of Helen Frances Catherine Douglas and her husband, Bishop Daniel Sandford.
In 1828 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh his proposer being George Augustus Borthwick.
[4] When travelling on a mailcoach in 1829, he realised that one of his fellow passengers was in fact a disguised William Hare (who had been granted immunity from prosecution).
[6] He lived his later life at 11 Randolph Crescent on the edge of the Moray Estate in western Edinburgh.