A Grandson of William Watson Saunders and nephew of Edward Saunders. Educated at Merchant Taylor’s school and St. John’s College, Oxford. Went to Singapore in 1891 in the Indian Colonial Service and was at one time District Judge there. Later he was Secretary for Chinese affairs and finally Assigner and Registrar of Companies of the Straits Settlements. His obituary in EMM, 77, 1941, p.209 states that whilst in Singapore he formed a large collection of beetles, paying particular attention to the smaller forms, and that this collection was subsequently acquired by the NHM. He certainly pursued the interest when he returned to England in 1923, publishing many short notes in the EMM in particular. Of interest amongst these was one on ‘Odontaeus armiger in some numbers’ (72, 1936, p.178). His British beetles also passed to the NHM as a gift from his brother and sisters. He also collected Hemiptera which are now in Lewes Museum. Harvey et. al (1996) p.185 record that 3 ms volumes being a Register of the Saunders collection, are in the NHM together with a collecting notebook, one ms notebook titled Host plants of British Beetles, and ten letters from R.Hanitsch 1928-1939. (MD 11/04)
Dates
30 March 1868 – 8 July 1941