Nicholas Saunders (died 1605) was an English politician. He was the only son of Thomas Saunders of Uxbridge, Middlesex and educated at

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(1565). He was employed as a government messenger carrying state correspondence to overseas countries. At one stage (1585) he got into debt and spent time in prison. He was elected a

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(MP) of the

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for Penryn in 1589, St. Ives in 1593,

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in 1597 and

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in 1601. He never married.

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16th-century births 1605 deaths Members of the pre-1707 English Parliament for constituencies in Cornwall English MPs 1589 English MPs 1593 English MPs 1597–1598 English MPs 1601 Alumni of King's College, Cambridge {{17thC-England-MP-stub