Ebenezer Sandford

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Sandford was born in 1848. He arrived in Port Chalmers on the Peter Denny on 26 July 1874 from London with his wife and two young children.{{cite web|last=Woodward|first=Corey|title=PETER DENNY|url=http://www.yesteryears.co.nz/shipping/passlists/peterdenny.html|accessdate=5 August 2012}} They lived in Mornington near Dunedin, then Arrowtown followed by Invercargill. He came to Christchurch in the mid-1880s.{{cite news |title=Obituary |url= http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&d=CHP18971218.2.80 |accessdate=5 August 2012 |newspaper=The Press |volume=LIV |issue=9913 |date=18 December 1897|page=10}}

In Arrowtown, he worked for the Arrowtown Observer. In Christchurch, he was a compositor for the Lyttelton Times.{{cite book|title=The Cyclopedia of New Zealand – Canterbury Provincial District|publisher=The Cyclopedia Company Limited|location=Christchurch|year=1903|chapter=Mr. Ebenezer Sandford |url= https://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-Cyc03Cycl-t1-body1-d3-d6-d45.html#name-420425-mention |accessdate=10 May 2010}}

Sandford contested the {{By-election link|Christchurch|1891}} for the City of Christchurch electorate against John Tippett Smith{{cite book |title=The Cyclopedia of New Zealand (Canterbury Provincial District) |publisher=Cyclopedia Company Limited|location=Christchurch|year=1903|chapter=City Council|url= https://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-Cyc03Cycl-t1-body1-d3-d8-d7.html#name-420442-mention |accessdate=16 March 2010}} and Eden George. Sandford came first with 1851 votes, representing a majority of 742 votes. Smith and George received 1109 and 637 votes, respectively.{{cite news |url= http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=TS18911010.2.64 |title=The Christchurch Election|date=10 October 1891|issue=7291|newspaper=The Star |page=4|accessdate=23 April 2012}} George petitioned against the election, arguing that the nominations for Sandford and Smith were received too late by the returning officer, and he was thus the only person who could have been declared elected.{{cite news |url= http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=TS18911024.2.38 |title=The Christchurch Election. |date=24 October 1891|issue=7303|newspaper=The Star |page=3|accessdate=23 April 2012}} The elections petitions court found that whilst the returning officer had made an error, the subsequent election was valid and the petition had to be dismissed.{{cite news |url= http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=TS18920206.2.32 |title=The Christchurch Election |date=6 February 1892|issue=7199|newspaper=The Star |page=3|accessdate=23 April 2012}}

Sandford died on 17 December 1897 and was buried at Linwood Cemetery. His last residence was in Queen Street (since renamed to Queensbury Street{{cite web|url= http://christchurchcitylibraries.com/Heritage/PlaceNames/ChristchurchStreetNames-P-Q.pdf |title=Christchurch Street Names P to Q |last=Harper|first=Margaret |publisher=Christchurch City Libraries|page=73 | accessdate=6 May 2011}}) in Burwood.{{cite web|title=Christchurch City Council Cemeteries Database|url= http://librarydata.christchurch.org.nz/Cemeteries/interment.asp?id=19946|publisher= Christchurch City Libraries|accessdate=6 May 2011}} He was survived by his wife (Maria Eliza Sandford, née Sharp, d. 11 March 1936) and seven children.{{cite news|title=Obituary |url= http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=TS18971218.2.53 |accessdate=16 May 2012|newspaper=The Star|date=18 December 1897|page=6}}

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{{s-bef | before = Westby Perceval, William Pember Reeves, Richard Molesworth Taylor}}

{{s-ttl | title=Member of Parliament for Christchurch | alongside = William Pember Reeves, Richard Molesworth Taylor | years = 1891–1893}}

{{s-aft | after = George John Smith, William Pember Reeves, William Whitehouse Collins}}

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Category:1848 births

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