Details of Sculptor

Surname

Saunders

Alternative Surname

First Name

Samuel

Initial of Surname

S

Year of Birth/Baptism

Flourished

Year of Death

- 1742

Biographical Details

The son of John Saunders, he became free of the Masons’ Company in 1708 by patrimony. He was presumably a brother of Richard Saunders, and like him worked for Lord Ashburnham, who employed him at Ashburnham House, Westminster, in 1708 (Ashburnham Archives, quoted by Gunnis 1968, 340). Saunders, who in 1717 took as an apprentice Thomas, son of Thomas Thompson of Waltham Abbey, Essex (TNA lR l/6), was renters warden of the Masons’ Company in 1721 and master in 1726. He was also an officer in the City trained bands. He was decribed as ‘Col Saml Saunders’ in the record of his death in the Court Book of the Company (Masons’ Co, Court Book, 1722-51, 20 October 1742).
Literary References: Gunnis 1968, 340
Archival References: Masons’ Co, Court Book, 1695-1722 fol 88r (1708), fols 192 r&v (1720), Court Book, 1722-51 (1726)