See Eyton's Shropshire, vii. p. 325; Wotton's Baronetage, iv. 38; Blakeway, pp. 74, 75, 80, 91; Stemmata Botvilliana, 1858; and Morris MSS.
Arms.—Quarterly per fess indented or and gules. In 1315, Sir Richard de Leighton bore the present coat differenced by a bendlet, as appears by his seal attached to a deed still preserved at Loton: the same arms are on his monument, formerly in Buildwas Abbey, and now in Leighton church.
Present Representative, Sir Baldwin Leighton, 7th Baronet, late M.P. for South Salop.
Sandford of Sandford.
A family of acknowledged antiquity, whose ancestor Richard de Sanford was certainly seated at Sandford soon after the Conquest, and which has ever since remained their principal seat; it is in the parish of Prees, and is mentioned by Leland in his Itinerary. The Herald of the eighteenth century, and the late excellent Bishop of Edinburgh, were both of this family.
Younger Branch. Sandford of the Isle House near Shrewsbury, parted from the parent stem in the fifteenth century, and who also by marriage represent the ancient Shropshire families of Sprenghose and Winsbury.
See Eyton's Shropshire, ix. p. 221; and Blakeway, pp. 54, 190, 222.
Arms.—Quarterly per fess indented azure and ermine. The Sandfords of the Isle bear, Party per chevron sable and ermine, in chief two boar's heads couped close or.
Present Representative, Thomas Hugh Sandford, Esq.