Frederick Richard Saunders

Sir Frederick Richard Saunders KCMG
Treasurer of Ceylon
In office 18 October 1890 – 1897
Preceded by	George Thomas Michael O'Brien
Succeeded by	Charles Pennycuick
2nd Inspector General of Police (Sri Lanka)
In office 1872–1873
Preceded by	William Robert Campbell
Succeeded by	William Robert Campbell
Personal details
Born	7 July 1838 Colombo, British Ceylon (now Sri Lanka)
Died	30 March 1910 Hove, East Sussex
Resting place	Hove, East Sussex
Spouse(s)	Mary Jane née Gibson 1837 (m. 1867; her death 1895) Christina Sophia née Freshfield 1837 (m. 1900; her death 1909)
Children	Frederick William (b. 1870), Charles Reeves (b. 1876), Louisa Caroline
Parents	Frederick Saunders, Louisa Matilda née Tucker
Profession	Colonial administrator

Sir Frederick Richard Saunders, KCMG (7 July 1838 – 30 March 1910) was the Treasurer of Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) (1890–1897), Commissioner of Stamps, a member of the Executive and Legislative Councils, and the second British colonial Inspector General of Police of British Ceylon from 1872 to 1873.

Frederick Richard Saunders was born in Colombo, Ceylon on 7 July 1838, the first son and second child of Frederick Saunders (1804–1870) (the Postmaster General of Ceylon (1839–1861) and then Treasurer of Ceylon (1861–1865)) and Louisa Matilda née Tucker (1814–1895).

He was educated at Guernsey College and the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich. He entered the Ceylon Civil Service in 1857, and became successively District Judge, Inspector-General of Prisons, Government Agent for the Western Province, and Auditor-General. In 1890 he was appointed Treasurer of Ceylon and Commissioner of Stamps. He received the CMG in 1880 and was made a Knights Commander in the Order of St Michael and St George on 22 June 1897,^[1] retiring from public service in 1897.

Saunders was married twice, firstly, 26 October 1867, to Mary Jane née Gibson, , who died 30 April 1895, and, secondly, in 1900, to Christina Sophia née Freshfield, widow of Captain C. F. Borrer, late 60th Rifles and daughter of Charles Freshfield (MP for Dover), who died 15 January 1909. Saunders died on 30 March 1910 at his property in Hove, East Sussex at age 71. He was buried at Hove Cemetery, in a plot adjoining his wife, Christina.^[2]

References

1. Shaw, William A. (2002). The Knights of England: A Complete Record from the Earliest Time to the Present Day of the Knights of All the Orders of Chivalry in England, Scotland, and Ireland and of Knights Bachelors. Genealogical Publishing Company. p. 382.
2. Howard, Joseph Jackson (1909). Visitation of England and Wales. Vol. 16. London: Forgotten Books (2013 reprint). pp. 263–4.