Robert Sanders, 1st Baron Bayford

(Redirected from Robert Arthur Sanders) British barrister and politician

Lieutenant-Colonel The Right HonourableThe Lord BayfordTD PC JP DL


Treasurer of the Household
In office 1918–1919
Monarch	George V
Prime Minister	David Lloyd George
Preceded by	James Craig
Succeeded by	Bolton Eyres-Monsell

Personal details
Born	20 June 1867
Died	24 February 1940
Spouse	Lucy Halliday (m. 1893-1940)
Alma mater	Balliol College, Oxford

Robert Arthur Sanders, 1st Baron Bayford, TD, PC, JP, DL (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, Wootton Bridge, Isle of Wight, Sanders was born at 27 Norfolk Square, Paddington, Middlesex. He was educated at Harrow and Balliol College, Oxford, where he graduated with first class honours in law. He joined the Inner Temple and was called to the bar in 1891.

Political career

Sanders was Conservative Member of Parliament for Bridgwater, Somerset from 1910 until 1923. During this time he also served from 1911 to 1917 as a Lieutenant-Colonel with the Royal North Devon Yeomanry, serving at Gallipoli, and in Egypt and Palestine. He was appointed a deputy lieutenant of Somerset in 1912.

He was Treasurer of the Household (Government Deputy Chief Whip in the House of Commons), 1918–1919, and a junior Lord of the Treasury from 1919 until 1921. He then held ministerial office as Under-Secretary of State for War from 1921 to 1922 and Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries from 1922 to 1924. He was created a Baronet 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

Ribbon	Description	Notes
	Baronetcy (Bt)	1920 New Years Honours List
	1914–15 Star
	British War Medal
	WWI Victory Medal	With MID Oakleaf
	King George V Coronation Medal	1911
	King George V Silver Jubilee Medal	6 May 1935
	Territorial Decoration (TD)	With 1 Clasp 20 years service in the Territorial Army.

Footnotes

John Ramsden, "Sanders, Robert Arthur, Baron Bayford (1867–1940), politician", in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online edition, 2004), accessed 21 September 2022 (subscription required)
"No. 28579". The London Gazette. 9 February 1912. p. 979.
"No. 31712". The London Gazette (Supplement). 30 December 1919. p. 2.
"No. 31830". The London Gazette. 19 March 1920. p. 3432.
"No. 33510". The London Gazette. 28 June 1929. p. 4268.
"Robert Arthur Sanders, 1st and last Baron Bayford". The Peerage. Retrieved 5 November 2017.

References

Biography, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
Who Was Who

External links

Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Robert Sanders

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded byHenry Montgomery	Member of Parliament for Bridgwater January 1910–1923	Succeeded byWilliam Morse
Preceded byArthur Hobhouse	Member of Parliament for Wells 1924–1929	Succeeded byAnthony Muirhead
Political offices
VacantTitle last held byJames Craig	Treasurer of the Household 1918–1919	Succeeded byBolton Eyres-Monsell
Preceded byThe Viscount Peel	Under-Secretary of State for War 1921–1922	Succeeded byWalter Guinness
Preceded byArthur Griffith-Boscawen	Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries 1922–1924	Succeeded byNoel Buxton
Peerage of the United Kingdom
New creation	Baron Bayford 1929–1940	Extinct
Baronetage of the United Kingdom
New creation	Baronet (of Bayford) 1920–1940	Extinct

Cabinet of Bonar Law (1922–1923)

Prime Minister Leader of the House of Commons	Bonar Law (1922–1923)
Lord Chancellor	Lord Cave (1922–1923)
Lord President of the Council Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster	Lord Salisbury (1922–1923)
Chancellor of the Exchequer	Stanley Baldwin (1922–1923)
Home Secretary	William Bridgeman (1922–1923)
Foreign Secretary Leader of the House of Lords	Lord Curzon (1922–1923)
Secretary of State for the Colonies	The Duke of Devonshire (1922–1923)
Secretary of State for War	Lord Derby (1922–1923)
Secretary of State for India	Lord Peel (1922–1923)
Secretary of State for Scotland	Lord Novar (1922–1923)
First Lord of the Admiralty	Leo Amery (1922–1923)
President of the Board of Trade	Sir Phillip Lloyd-Greame (1922–1923)
Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries	Sir Robert Sanders (1922–1923)
President of the Board of Education	E. F. L. Wood (1922–1923)
Minister of Labour	Sir Anderson Montague-Barlow (1922–1923)
Minister of Health	Arthur Griffith-Boscawen (1922–1923) Neville Chamberlain (1923)

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