Edward James Saunderson

Colonel Edward James Saunderson PC, JP, DL was an AngloIrish landowner and prominent Irish unionist politician. He led the Irish Unionist Party between 1891 and 1906.

Saunderson was born at the family seat of Castle Saunderson in County Cavan. He was the younger son of Colonel Alexander Saunderson, who served as the Tory Member of Parliament for Cavan, and Hon. Sarah Juliana Maxwell. He was the grandson of Henry Maxwell, 6th Baron Farnham. The Irish Saundersons were a 17thcentury branch of an old family, originally from Durham a Lincolnshire branch, the Saundersons of Saxby, held the titles of Viscount Castleton and Baron Saunderson up to 1723. Saunderson was educated abroad, mostly in Nice by private tutors, and inherited his fathers Cavan estates following his death in 1857.

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