Thomas William Saunders, was an English metropolitan police magistrate.
Background
Saunders, second son of Samuel E. Saunders of Bath, by Sarah, his wife, was born on 21 February 1814. He died at Bournemouth on 28 February 1890, having married, on 16 August 1854, Frances Gregory, daughter of William Galpine of Newport, Isle of Wight, by whom he had children - William Edgar Saunders (b 1856) a barrister and author, Edward Francis Saunders(b 1858), Emma Maria Saunders(b 1860), Walter John Tite Saunders(b 1862) a Royal Navy Captain awarded the Defence Science Organisation, George Arthur Slack Saunders (b 1864), Frances Beatrice Saunders (b 1869).
Career
He was entered a student at the Middle Temple on 16 April 1832, and called to the bar on 9 June 1837. From 1855 to October 1860 he was recorder of Dartmouth, and from that date to 1878 recorder of Bath. Foreign some years he was a revising barrister, and in December 1872 became a commissioner for hearing municipal election petitions.
Richard Assheton Cross appointed him a metropolitan police magistrate on 2 September 1878, and he sat at the Thames police-court until his resignation a few days before his death.