No. 1 Royal Crescent as it has been

• Successful visitor attraction with c.50,000 visitors

• 5 historic dressedrooms and shop

• Bath PreservationTrust 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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