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- 1 2 3 4 5 6 Lee, Sidney, ed. (1897). . Dictionary of National Biography . Vol. 50. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
- ↑ He played, in 1674, Lycungus in Elkanah Settle's Conquest of China by the Tartars; in 1675 Tissaphernes in Thomas Otway's Alcibiades ; in 1676 Sir Roger Petulant in Thomas D'Urfey's Fond Husband, or the Plotting Sisters, and Sir Arthur Oldlove in D'Urfey's Madame Fickle, or the Witty False One; in 1677 Thrifty in Otway's Cheats of Scapin, Photinus in Charles Sedley's Antony and Cleopatra, Sylvanus in the anonymous The Constant Nymph: Or, the Rambling Shepheard; in 1678 Priamus in John Bankes's Destruction of Troy, Colonel Buff in D'Urfey's Squire Oldsapp, or the Night Adventurers , Nicias in Timon of Athens , altered by Thomas Shadwell.
- ↑ In 1689 he played Sir Thomas Credulous in Crowne's English Friar; in 1690 Benducar in Dryden's Don Sebastian, King of Portugal , Dareing in Widow Ranter, or the History of Bacon in Virginia, by Aphra Behn, and Gripus in Dryden's Amphitryon.
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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain : Lee, Sidney, ed. (1897). "Sandford, Samuel". Dictionary of National Biography . Vol. 50. London: Smith, Elder & Co.