Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Arthur Sanders, 1st Baron Bayford PC, JP (20 June 1867 – 24 February 1940) was an English politician.
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The son of Arthur Sanders, of Fernhill, Isle of Wight, Sanders was born in Paddington, London, and educated at Harrow and Balliol College, Oxford where he graduated with 1st class honours in Law. He became a barrister at the Inner Temple in 1891.
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 Hussars, serving at Gallipoli, and in Egypt and Palestine.
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[1] 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.[2]
Sanders married Lucy Sophia, daughter of William Halliday, in 1893. They had one son 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.[3]
| Parliament of the United Kingdom | ||
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| Preceded by Henry Greville Montgomery |
Member of Parliament for Bridgwater January 1910–1923 |
Succeeded by William Ewart Morse |
| Preceded by Arthur Lawrence Hobhouse |
Member of Parliament for Wells 1924–1929 |
Succeeded by Anthony John Muirhead |
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Title last held by
James Craig |
Treasurer of the Household 1918–1919 |
Succeeded by Bolton Eyres-Monsell |
| Preceded by The Viscount Peel |
Under-Secretary of State for War 1921–1922 |
Succeeded by Walter Guinness |
| Preceded by Arthur Griffith-Boscawen |
Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries 1922–1924 |
Succeeded by Noel Buxton |