No. 1 Royal Crescent as it has been
• Successful visitor
attraction with
c.50,000 visitors
• 5 historic dressed
rooms and shop
• Bath Preservation
Trust headquarters
• Educational visits and
lectures
Reference to the domestic offices: “detached by a
small open Court, but united by a Passage, under a
covered Way …”
Henry Sandford
Born: 30 December 1719 in Castlerea, County Roscommon
1741-1776: MP for Roscommon, Kildare and Carrick
1750: Marries Sarah Moore, daughter of 1st Viscount Mountcashel. They have
5 children. She dies in xxx
1776: Moves to Bath and takes up residence at Number One where he remains
until his death.
1796: Sandford dies at Number One: ‘a gentleman of the most benevolent
disposition’
Bath Chronicle - 8 Dec 1785 – “Ford at his shop (late Mr Gill's) in Churchyard leading to Cheap St,
Bath - supplies soups, pies, polonies in highest perfection”.
“Caridge of Wine from Castlerea to be sent to Bath...
2 Hampiers sent with wine to Bath”
Bill account addressed to Henry Sandford on 25 June 1777
(Pakenham-Mahon papers held at the National Library of Ireland)
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