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See also: born at See also: Castle Saunderson, Co
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See also: Cavan, on the 1st of See also: October 1837
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He was the son of See also: Alexander Saunderson, M.P. for Cavan (d
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1857), his
See also: mother being a daughter of the 6th Baron
See also: Farnham
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The Irish Saundersons were a 17th century branch of an old See also: family, originally of Durham; a See also: Lincolnshire branch, the Saundersons of Saxby, held the titles of Viscount See also: Castleton (Irish: cr
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1628) and Baron Saunderson (See also: British: cr
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1714) up to 1723
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See also: 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 See also: year was elected M.P. for the county as a Palmerstonian Liberal
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He lost his seat in 1874, and by 1885, when he again entered parliament for See also: North See also: Armagh, he had become a prominent Orangeman and a Conservative; the question of Irish home See also: rule had now come to the front, and Saunderson's See also: political career as a representative Irish Unionist had begun
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He had entered the Cavan militia (4th See also: 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
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Almost from the first he became See also: leader of the Irish Unionist party in the See also: House of See also: Commons, his uncompromising speeches being full of force and See also: humour
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In 1898 his services were recognized by his being made a privy councillor
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He died on the 21st of October 1906 . In private See also: life Colonel Saunderson was well known as a keen yachtsman; his character was deeply marked by stern religious feeling, and his See also: fine sincerity, while endearing him to his See also: friends, never lost him the respect of his opponents
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See the Memoir by Reginald Lucas (1908)
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