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43 SALTOUN — SANDHURST. Family Estates. — These, in 1S83, consisted of 10,762 acres in Aberdeenshire, worth (inclusive of 700 acres in the name of " trustees " of the late Lord) £11,929 a year. Principal Residence : Philorth House, near Fraserburgh, co. Aberdeen. SAMPSON. Barony by 1. William Sampson (of whom no account is givm ■writ- in Dugdale's Baronage), was buiii. to Purl, as a Baron (LOUD T lOOQ SAMPSON) by writs from 29 Dec. (1299; 28 Ed. I. to 3 Nov. J - (1300) 34 Ed. I. SANDP.ECK. i.e., "Castleton op Sandbeck, co. York," Viscnnntcy (Saunderson) cr. 1710; Earldom, cr. 1720 ; see " Castleton," Viscountcy [I.] re. 1027, sub tlie 0th Viscount ; both titles becoming extinct therewith 1723. SAN'DFORP. As to this fictitious Karony of Sandfonl, which (with BoJebec and Badlesmere) was assumed by the Karls of Oxford, see vol. i., p. 300, note " b," si/4 Bolebec." Barony. 1, " The Rt Hon. Sir Fhancis-Richaud-Joun Sand- I 1891 FOBD - KCB " " ils w- 20 J, ">- 1S91, HA HON SANDFORD ut ' Sandford, co. Salop. He was the eldest s. of Sir Daniel Keyte '" SaNDPOSD, Professor of Greek at the Univ. of Glasgow (</. 4 Feb. 1893. 1838, aged 40) by Cecilia Catherine, da. of John Charnock ; was //. at Glasgow College, 14 Mav 1824; ed. at that Univ. anil at Balliol Coll., Oxfoid; B.A. and 1st class Classics, 1840; M.A., 1858 ; Hon. LL.D. of Glasgow, 1859 : Sec. for the international exhibition of 1802, for which service he was Kniyhttd, 2 June 1803 ; Sec. to Education department, 1870-84 ; C.B. 1871 : K.C.B, 31 May 1879; P.C., 1885 ; first Under Secretary for Scotland, 1885-88; member of Council on Education in Scotland, 1885-816 and 1880-92, being filially raited to the peerage, as above stated, in 1S91. He d. num. 31 Dec. 1893, aged 09, at 20 Glouces- ter Terrace, Hyde Park, when the Barony became extinct. He was bur. at Prees, co. Salop. W ill pr. at £1,183. SANDHURST. Barony. /. <• Rt. Hon. Sir William Rose Mansfield, G.C.B., I 1871 G.C.S.I., Lieut.-Gen. in H.M.'s army and Lieut. -Gen. Commanding H.M.'s forces in Ireland," was cr. 28 March 1871, HA HON SANDHUHST of Sandhurst, co. Berks. He was 5th of the six sons of John Manskikld, of Digswell House, Herts, by Mary Buchanan, da. of Gen. Samuel Smith, of Baltimore, in the United States, which John was s. of Sir James Mansfikld, L. Ch. Justice of the Common Pleas, 1804-14. He was b. 21 June 1819 at Huxley, co. Surrey ; ed. at Sandhurst College ;(") entered the 53d Foot in 1835; served in the Sutlej campaign 1845-40, acting as aide de-camp to the Com. ill chief at Sobraon ; was in Command of the 53d in the I'unjaub campaign 1848-49, and con- stantly employed on the Peshawur frontier 1851-52 ; was attached to the embassy at Constantinople as military adviser in 1855, proceeding thence to the Crimea ; Consul Gen. at Warsaw, 1350 ; Chief of the Staff in India during the whole of the Indian mntiDy 1857-59, serving at I.ucknow, and being wounded at Cawnpore ; made K.C.B. 1858 " in recognition of his valuable services in the East Indies, receiving the thanks of Pari, in 1859; Com. in chief of the Bombay armv 1860-65, and of the forces in India 1805-70. Col. of the 38th Foot, 1802-00; G.C.S.I., 1800; P.C. [I.], 1S70; (*) His title of peerage was presumably selected from his having been educated at Sandhurst.