Background
James Sanderson was born in 1741. He was the only surviving son of James Sanderson of New York
James Sanderson was born in 1741. He was the only surviving son of James Sanderson of New York
Huntington used his new riches to build a £10,000 chapel. He started business buying and selling hops before becoming a banker at Mansion House Street in Southwark. In 1785, by which time he was an alderman, he was elected Sheriff of London and knighted whilst in office.
In 1792 he was elected Lord Mayor of the City of London.
lieutenant was reported that this was a time:
.. when the principles of the French Revolution were contaminating the minds of men, opinions which required to be counteracted by a firm, prudent, and constitutional chief magistrate. In 1793, Sanderson became president of Bridewell Hospital where he is acknowledged to have transformed the way it was managed.
The hospital took in poor people and was a cross between a prison and a school. Later the institution"s two roles were split, and in time the school became King Edward"s School, Witley.
The Proclamation for the Discouragement of Vice was intended to be a remedy for a perceived rise in immorality.
On 6 December 1794, Sanderson became Sir James Sanderson, Baronet of London. In the following parliamentary election he was returned as the member for Hastings together with Nicholas Vansittart. Sanderson was married twice, first to Elizabeth Judd of Chelmsford.
(Sanderson had made it a condition of his will that his heirs should take his surname.
And in 1815 his new family took his arms, from 1794, as well) A painting of him, from which he was described as handsome, was placed in the court room of Bridewell Royal Hospital. (The painting was at King Edward"s School, Witley in 2004) Sanderson"s memorial at Street Magnus-the-Martyr church in the City of London was thought notable by the architectural historian, Nikolaus Pevsner.
Lady Sanderson did not die until 1817, so she would have seen her husband"s tombstone—on which his self-written epitaph identified him as a prophet.
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He also served as president of Bridewell Hospital (now a school), and was a member of William Wilberforce"s Proclamation Society for the Discouragement of Vice. In the same year he was one of the three men returned as Members of Parliament for the Parliamentary constituency of Malmesbury.
Sanderson was a member of William Wilberforce"s Proclamation Society, which had been founded following a 1787 royal proclamation instituted by Wilberforce via the Archbishop of Canterbury.
Sanderson was also a member of the Philanthropic Society and the vice-president of Magdelen Hospital.