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Lettice Sandford

Lettice Sandford (born Lettice Mackintosh Rate; 1902–1993) was a draughtswoman, wood-engraver, pioneer corn dolly revivalist and watercolourist of her beloved Herefordshire. She was a daughter of Lachlan Mackintosh Rate of Milton Court, Surrey, a director of the Imperial Ottoman Bank, the central bank of the Ottoman Empire, and wife of Christopher Sandford of Eye Manor, Herefordshire, proprietor of the Golden Cockerel Press, for which she provided wood-engravings. She was the mother of playwright Jeremy Sandford.

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Lettice Sandford

Born
1902
Died
1993
Nationality
United Kingdom · United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Occupation
painter · illustrator
Languages
English

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Lettice Sandford (born Lettice Mackintosh Rate; 1902–1993) was a draughtswoman, wood-engraver, pioneer corn dolly revivalist and watercolourist of her beloved Herefordshire. She was a daughter of Lachlan Mackintosh Rate of Milton Court, Surrey, a director of the Imperial Ottoman Bank, the central bank of the Ottoman Empire, and wife of Christopher Sandford of Eye Manor, Herefordshire, proprietor of the Golden Cockerel Press, for which she provided wood-engravings. She was the mother of playwright Jeremy Sandford.

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