Memorial to Augustus Page Saunders, Peterborough Cathedral

Augustus Page Saunders FRS (1 March 1801 – 21 July 1878), was a British Headmaster of

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and

Dean of Peterborough The Dean of Peterborough is the head of the chapter at Peterborough Cathedral. On the Dissolution of Peterborough Abbey in 1539 and the abbey-church's refoundation as a cathedral for the new bishop and diocese of Peterborough, care for the abbey ...

Cathedral.

Life

A son of Robert Saunders, of Lewisham, and his wife, Margaret Keble, he was educated at Charterhouse School and

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. Saunders was ordained a priest in 1825. In 1832 he was appointed as vicar of

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, 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

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in 1842. He served as Headmaster of Charterhouse School from 1832 to 1853, and was then Dean of Peterborough from 1853 until his death. In 1872 he declined the Deanery of Winchester. In 1833 he was elected a

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Memorials

A brass plaque was erected on a column in the south-east section of Peterborough Cathedral, close to the burial place of

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Family

He married Emma Frances Walford in 1838 and had 10 children.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Saunders, Augustus Page 1801 births 1878 deaths People educated at Charterhouse School Doctors of Divinity Headmasters of Charterhouse School Deans of Peterborough Fellows of the Royal Society