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Sir Lancelot Sanderson KC (24 October 1863 – 9 March 1944) was a British Conservative politician and judge.

A barrister of the Inner Temple, he was appointed Recorder of Wigan in 1901[1] and took silk in 1903.[2] He was elected as Member of Parliament (MP) for the Appleby division of Westmorland at the January 1910 general election, regaining a formerly Conservative seat which had been held by Liberal MPs since 1900.[3] He was re-elected in the general election of December 1910, but resigned his seat[4] and recordership in October 1915, when he was appointed Chief Justice of the High Court of Judicature in Calcutta after Hon'ble Justice Lawrence Hugh Jenkins.[5] Upon his resignation from that position in 1926, Sanderson was appointed to the Privy Council and sat on the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council from 1934 until 1935.[6] He died in Lancaster aged 80.

Sanderson was also a cricketer.[7] He played two first-class matches; the first for Lancashire in 1884, and the second for the Marylebone Cricket Club four years later.[8]

References

External links

• Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Lancelot Sanderson
• Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Leif Jones	Member of Parliament for Appleby January 1910 – 1915	Succeeded by Cecil Lowther
Legal offices
Preceded by Sir Lawrence Hugh Jenkins	Chief Justice of Bengal 1915–1926	Succeeded by Sir George Claus Rankin

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