Augustus Page Saunders (1 March 1801 – 21 July 1878), was a British Headmaster of

Charterhouse School Charterhouse is a Public school (United Kingdom), public school (English independent boarding school for pupils aged 13–18) in Godalming, Surrey, England. Founded by Thomas Sutton in 1611 on the site of the old Carthusian monastery in Charter ...

and

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Cathedral.

Life

A son of Robert Saunders, of Lewisham, and his wife, Margaret Keble, he was educated at Charterhouse School and

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. Saunders was ordained a priest in 1825. In 1832, he was appointed as vicar of

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, resigning in 1835. He had also been made a domestic chaplain to Richard Bagot,

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, in 1832. He was awarded the degree of

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in 1842. He served as Headmaster of Charterhouse School from 1832 to 1853, and was then Dean of Peterborough from 1853 until his death. In 1872, he declined the Deanery of Winchester. In 1833, he was elected a

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Memorials

A brass plaque was erected on a column in the south-east section of

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, close to the burial place of

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Family

He married Emma Frances Walford in 1838 and had 10 children.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Saunders, Augustus Page 1801 births 1878 deaths People educated at Charterhouse School Doctors of Divinity Headmasters of Charterhouse School Deans of Peterborough Fellows of the Royal Society