Robert Arthur Sanders, 1st Baron Bayford (20 June 1867 – 24 February 1940) was an English barrister and politician.

Background and education

The eldest of the three sons of Arthur Sanders, a barrister, of Fernhill,

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, Sanders was born at 27 Norfolk Square,

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. He was educated at Harrow and Balliol College, Oxford, where he graduated with first class honours in law. He joined the

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and was called to the bar in 1891.

Political career

Sanders was

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Member of Parliament for Bridgwater,

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from 1910 until 1923. During this time he also served from 1911 to 1917 as a

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with the Royal North Devon Yeomanry, serving at Gallipoli, and in

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and Palestine. He was appointed a deputy lieutenant of

in 1912. He was

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(Government Deputy Chief Whip in the House of Commons), 1918–1919, and a junior

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from 1919 until 1921. He then held ministerial office as

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from 1921 to 1922 and

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from 1922 to 1924. He was created a

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in the 1920 New Year Honours and appointed to the Privy Council in 1922, entitling him to the style "The Right Honourable". He sat for Wells from 1924 to 1929, when he was raised to the peerage as Baron Bayford, of Stoke Trister in the County of Somerset.

Personal life

Sanders married Lucy Sophia, daughter of William Halliday, in 1893. They had one son Arthur Sanders and two daughters. As his only son committed suicide in 1920, the title became extinct on Bayford's death in February 1940, aged 72. Lady Bayford died in September 1957.

Honours

UK King George V Silver Jubilee Medal ribbon

Ribbon - Efficiency Decoration (South Africa)

Footnotes

References

*Biography, ''

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