John Frederick Stanford

John Frederick Stanford (1815–1880)[1] was an English barrister and politician.[2]

Life

He was the youngest son of Major Francis William Stanford of the 1st Life Guards, from County Mayo, and his first wife Mary, daughter of William Gorton.[3][4] He was educated at Eton College, and was admitted a pensioner of Trinity College, Cambridge in 1832. He did not reside there, and was admitted to Christ's College in 1834, matriculating in 1834, and graduating B.A. in 1838, M.A. in 1842.[2]

Stanford was admitted to Lincoln's Inn in 1841, was called to the bar in 1844, and that year became a Fellow of the Royal Society. He was elected Member of Parliament for Reading in 1849, serving until 1852.[2]

Legacy

Stanford left £5000 to the University of Cambridge which went to support Charles Fennell's Stanford Dictionary of Anglicised Words and Phrases.[5] The project was intended to complete his own Etymological Dictionary dealing with words and phrases from other languages adopted in English. Edward Byles Cowell, Walter Skeat and Aldis Wright all considered that the bequest should be rejected, but they were not in the majority when it came to a vote.[6]

He also left £5000 to the National Lifeboat Institution, for a boat named after his mother Mary.[7]

Works

Stanford wrote pamphlets on political economy.[4] His works included:

Notes

  1. ↑ "Janus: John Frederick Stanford: Commentary on the Custom of Judicial Combat between Man and Wife in Würtzburg". University of Cambridge. Retrieved 14 August 2014.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "Stanford, John Frederick (STNT832JF)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  3. ↑ "Stanford, John Frederick (STNT832JF)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Death of Mr. J. F. Stanford, F.R.S.". The Star. 9 December 1880. Retrieved 14 August 2014 – via British Newspaper Archive. (subscription required (help)).
  5. ↑ Sarah Ogilvie (1 November 2012). Words of the World: A Global History of the Oxford English Dictionary. Cambridge University Press. p. 106. ISBN 978-1-139-78953-0.
  6. ↑ David McKitterick (29 July 2004). A History of Cambridge University Press: Volume 3, New Worlds for Learning, 1873-1972. Cambridge University Press. p. 107. ISBN 978-0-521-30803-8.
  7. ↑ "Munificent Legacy". Portsmouth Evening News. 24 December 1880. Retrieved 14 August 2014 – via British Newspaper Archive. (subscription required (help)).
  8. ↑ John Frederick Stanford (1839). Outlines of a Plan of National Education, to suit all parties, and eminently calculated to benefit the country. Hayward and Moore.
  9. ↑ John Frederick Stanford (1842). Rambles and Researches in Thuringian Saxony.
  10. ↑ John Frederick Stanford (1847). On the Suppression of Mendicancy in the Metropolis.
  11. ↑ John Frederick Stanford (1847). The Patriots of Italy: an Appeal in Their Behalf.