Background
The son of Thomas Sanders, he was born at Breadalbane, Scotland, and was apprenticed to a comb-maker.
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Sanders was a self-created Doctor of Laws, who quarreled with booksellers and patrons.
Career
He taught himself some Latin, Greek, and Hebrew, and taught in schools in the north of England. About 1760 Sanders came to London, and took to hack writing. A begging letter of 1768 mentions a wife and five young children.
He haunted the London coffee-houses: the New England, Saint Paul"s, and New Slaughter"son
He died of a pulmonary disorder, on 24 March 1783.
