Lloyd Charles Sanders Explained

Lloyd Charles Sanders (1857 - 27 December 1927)^[1] was an English writer and biographer, known for a special knowledge of the 18th and 19th centuries, who wrote a number of volumes as well as contributing a number of entries to the Dictionary of National Biography.

The eldest son of the Rev. Lloyd Sanders, rector of Whimple, Devon, Sanders was educated as an exhibitioner of Christ Church, Oxford, taking a second class in moderations and a first in modern history, and the Standhope historical essay prize in 1880.^[2]

Sanders was a member of the Athenaeum Club in London.

Bibliography

• Celebrities of the century: being a dictionary of men and women of the nineteenth century (edited; 1888)
• Life of Viscount Palmerston (1888) - on Lord Palmerston
• Life of Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1890) - on Richard Brinsley Sheridan
• Lord Melbourne's Papers (edited; 1890) - the papers of William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne
• History of England During the Reign of Victoria, 1837-1901 (with Sir Sidney Low; 1908)
• The Holland House Circle (1908) - on the Whig social set of Holland House
• Old Kew, Chiswick, and Kensington (1910)
• Patron and Place-Hunter, a Study of George Bubb Dodington, Lord Melcombe (1919) - on George Dodington, 1st Baron Melcombe

Notes and References

1. [s:The Times/1927/Public notice/Lloyd Charles Sanders|Obituary: Mr. Lloyd Sanders]
2. Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886. Joseph Foster, Oxford: Parker and Co., 1888-1892.