SAUNDERSON, EDWARD JAMES (1837-1906)

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SAUNDERSON, EDWARD JAMES (1837-1906) , Irish politician, was born at Castle Saunderson, Co. Cavan, on the 1st of October 1837. He was the son of Alexander Saunderson, M.P. for Cavan (d. 1857), his mother being a daughter of the 6th Baron

Farnham

FARNHAM

. The Irish Saundersons were a 17th century branch of an old family, originally of

Durham

DURHAM
DURHAM, JOHN GEORGE LAMBTON, 1ST EARL OF (1792–1840)

; a Lincolnshire branch, the Saundersons of Saxby, held the titles of Viscount

Castleton

CASTLETON

(Irish: cr. 1628) and Baron Saunderson (British: cr. 1714) up to 1723.

Edward

EDWARD

Saunderson was educated abroad, and, having succeeded to the Cavan estates, married in 1865 a daughter of the 3rd Baron Ventry, and in the same year was elected M.P. for the county as a Palmerstonian Liberal. He lost his seat in 1874, and by 1885, when he again entered

parliament

PARLIAMENT (Anglo-Lat. parliamentum, Fr. parlement, from parler, to speak)

for North

Armagh

ARMAGH

, he had become a prominent Orangeman and a Conservative; the question of Irish

home

rule

RULE

had now come to the front, and Saunderson's political career as a representative Irish Unionist had begun. He had entered the Cavan militia (4th battalion Royal Irish Fusiliers) in 1862, and. was now major (1875), becoming colonel in 1886 and in command of the battalion from 1891 to 1893. Almost from the first he became leader of the Irish Unionist party in the

House

HOUSE
HOUSE (O. Eng. hiss, a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dut. huis, Ger. Haus; in
Gothic
- GOTHIC
it is only found in gudhiss, a temple; it may be ultimately connected with the root of " hide," conceal)

of Commons, his uncompromising speeches being full of force and humour. In 1898 his services were recognized by his being made a privy councillor. He died on the 21st of October 1906. In private life Colonel Saunderson was well known as a keen yachtsman; his character was deeply marked by stern religious feeling, and his fine sincerity, while endearing him to his friends, never lost him the respect of his opponents.
See the Memoir by Reginald Lucas (1908).

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