page_title: Sir Richard Sandford, 3rd Baronet
section_title: Early life
hierarchical_section_title: Sir Richard Sandford, 3rd Baronet / Early life
caption_attribution_description: English: Plan of Howgill Castle, cleaned up and trimmed
context_page_description: Sir Richard Sandford, 3rd Baronet was an English landowner and Whig politician who sat in the English House of Commons between 1695 and 1707, and in the British House of Commons from 1708 to 1723.
context_section_description: Sandford was the only son of Sir Richard Sandford, 2nd Baronet, of Howgill Castle, Westmorland and his wife Mary Bowes, daughter of Sir Francis Bowes of Thornton, County Durham. His father was murdered in the White Friars, London on the day, and even - it was said - the hour, of his son's birth. His attackers  Henry Symbal and William Jones  were executed shortly after. He entered Christs College, Cambridge in 1692.
caption: Plan of Howgill Castle
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