Augustus Saunders
{{Short description|British headmaster and Anglican dean (1801–1878)}}
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Augustus Page Saunders {{postnom|country=GB|FRS}} (1 March 1801 – 21 July 1878), was a British Headmaster of Charterhouse School and Dean of Peterborough Cathedral.
Life
A son of Robert Saunders, of Lewisham, and his wife, Margaret Keble, he was educated at Charterhouse School and Christ Church, Oxford.{{CCEd |type=person |id=21442 |name=Saunders, Augustus Page |year1=1825 |year2=1835 |accessed=5 February 2014 }}
Saunders was ordained a priest in 1825. In 1832, he was appointed as vicar of Ravensthorpe, Northamptonshire, resigning in 1835. He had also been made a domestic chaplain to Richard Bagot, Bishop of Oxford, in 1832. He was awarded the degree of Doctor of Divinity in 1842.
He served as Headmaster of Charterhouse School from 1832 to 1853, and was then Dean of Peterborough from 1853 until his death.{{cite web| url = http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=35339|title= Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1541-1857: volume 8: Bristol, Gloucester, Oxford and Peterborough dioceses|publisher= British History Online|accessdate = 9 May 2013}} In 1872, he declined the Deanery of Winchester.
In 1833, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society.{{cite web| url= http://royalsociety.org/DServe/dserve.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqCmd=Show.tcl&dsqDb=Persons&dsqPos=9&dsqSearch=%28%28text%29%3D%27Saunders%27%29| title = Library Archive|publisher= Royal Society|accessdate= 9 May 2013}}
Memorials
A brass plaque was erected on a column in the south-east section of Peterborough Cathedral, close to the burial place of Mary, Queen of Scots.
Family
He married Emma Frances Walford in 1838 and had 10 children.
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Category:People educated at Charterhouse School
Category:Headmasters of Charterhouse School