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Stanford, son of Joseph Stanford, shoemaker (d 1862), was born at Green Lane, Northampton, on 9 March 1823.
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He was for some time a shoemaker, then a lawyer"s clerk, and afterwards a bookseller"s assistant. In 1839, at the age of sixteen, he commenced preaching, and on 22 October 1841 entered the Bristol Baptist College.
His first pastorate was at Sparrow Hill, Loughborough, where he stayed from 1845 to Christmas 1846.
In May 1858 he was elected co-pastor with Doctor Edward Steane of Denmark Place Chapel, Camberwell, Surrey. And in May 1861, on the retirement of Steane, received the full charge.
He remained at Camberwell till his death. This was published in 1861.
In 1878 Stanford received the degree of Doctor of Divinity from Brown University, Rhode Island, United States. He was the president of the London Baptist Association in 1882.
From November 1881 he became almost blind from glaucoma, but prepared his work for the press with a typewriter. He died at 26 De Crespigny Park, Denmark Hill, on 18 March 1886, and was buried at West Norwood Cemetery on 24 March. He was twice married.
