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Colonel Edward James Saunderson PC DL JP (1 October 1837 – 21 October 1906) was an Anglo-Irish landowner and prominent Irish unionist politician. He led the Irish Unionist Alliance between 1891 and 1906.
Maume, Patrick. Saunderson, Edward James (1837–1906), politician, was born 1 October 1837 at Castle Saunderson, Co. Cavan, the fourth son (there were also two daughters) of Alexander Saunderson (d. 1857), landlord, and his wife, Sarah Juliana (née Maxwell; d. 1870), eldest daughter of the Rev. Henry Maxwell, 6th Baron Farnham.
11. Juli 2021 · One of the staunchest pro-union figures to emerge was Colonel Edward James Saunderson, of Castle Saunderson, Co. Cavan. The Saundersons, a family of Scottish origin, had first settled in Tyrone during the reign of James 1 before acquiring lands in Cavan and Monaghan in the Cromwellian and Williamite confiscations.
February 1995. Annotate. Cite. Permissions. Share. Abstract. Edward James Saunderson, who was for twenty years the English face of Unionism, has been consigned to obscurity, the victim of shifting loyalist priorities and myth-building, and of scholarly disregard.
Overview. Edward James Saunderson. (1837—1906) politician. Quick Reference. (1837–1906), first leader of the Irish unionist movement. A member of a Whiggish landed family whose tradition of parliamentary representation began in the 17th century, Saunderson was Liberal MP for ...
Saunderson, Edward James (1837–1906). Orangeman. Saunderson was a protestant of Irish gentry descent in Cavan, with hunting, sailing, and the militia as his great interests. From 1865 to 1874 he served in Parliament as a Liberal, but was defeated by a Home Ruler.
Sanderson, the Saunderson family, and the legacy of the O’Reillys are discussed. For the Saundersons of the nineteenth century, and for Colonel Edward Saunderson in particular, the O’Reillys provided a hint of medieval menace and colour to the well-mannered landscape of their demesne. The land agitators of the late nineteenth century built ...
