John Douglas Sandford (3 August 1832 – 26 May 1892) was an English first-class cricketer and a judicial official in the Indian Civil Service.
The son of future Archdeacon of Coventry John Sandford,[1] he was born in August 1832 at Chillingham, Northumberland.
[4] After graduating from Oxford, Sandford joined the Indian Civil Service in 1856, where he served in the North-Western Provinces and rose up the judicial system in British India to become the judicial commissioner of Burma and Mysore.
[5] He returned to England in 1868, where became a student of the Inner Temple at the age of 36, and was called to the bar in June 1870.
[4] After being called to the bar, he returned to British India where he practiced as a barrister until his departure in 1882.