﻿Edward 
  Saunders. 
  

  

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  His 
  day 
  was 
  planned 
  as 
  follows 
  : 
  He 
  would 
  sometimes 
  work 
  before 
  break- 
  

   fast, 
  and 
  always 
  afterwards 
  until 
  it 
  was 
  time 
  to 
  start 
  for 
  Lloyd's, 
  and 
  then 
  

   many 
  of 
  his 
  letters 
  were 
  written 
  in 
  the 
  train. 
  He 
  was 
  generally 
  back 
  again 
  

   by 
  5.30, 
  and 
  after 
  a 
  cup 
  of 
  tea 
  gave 
  the 
  rest 
  of 
  the 
  evening, 
  before 
  and 
  after 
  

   dinner, 
  to 
  his 
  scientific 
  work. 
  His 
  holidays, 
  too, 
  were 
  entirely 
  devoted 
  to 
  

   science, 
  including 
  here 
  the 
  out-of-door 
  collecting 
  and 
  observing 
  in 
  which 
  he 
  

   was 
  highly 
  successful. 
  

  

  Edward 
  Saunders 
  was 
  acutely 
  critical, 
  and 
  at 
  the 
  same 
  time 
  sympathetic, 
  

   kind-hearted, 
  and 
  generous— 
  an 
  uncommon 
  combination 
  when 
  the 
  qualities 
  

   are 
  developed 
  to 
  the 
  high 
  level 
  they 
  reached 
  in 
  him. 
  He 
  was 
  deeply 
  

   religious. 
  In 
  good 
  health 
  he 
  had 
  unfailing 
  spirits, 
  and 
  was 
  quick 
  to 
  see 
  the 
  

   comic 
  side 
  of 
  things. 
  He 
  loved 
  pictures, 
  and 
  music 
  even 
  more, 
  and 
  for 
  a 
  good 
  

   concert 
  he 
  would 
  even 
  lay 
  aside 
  his 
  scientific 
  work. 
  In 
  youth 
  he 
  was 
  fond 
  

   of 
  games 
  and 
  sport, 
  but 
  sold 
  his 
  favourite 
  gun 
  in 
  order 
  to 
  buy 
  a 
  good 
  

   microscope 
  (1). 
  . 
  Later 
  in 
  life 
  he 
  played 
  croquet 
  well, 
  and 
  still 
  later 
  lawn 
  

   tennis, 
  until 
  he 
  was 
  obliged 
  by 
  illness 
  to 
  give 
  up 
  all 
  except 
  the 
  gentlest 
  form 
  

   of 
  exercise. 
  

  

  One 
  of 
  his 
  sons 
  has 
  recalled 
  the 
  dominant 
  impressions 
  of 
  his 
  father's 
  

   pei'sonality 
  :— 
  

  

  " 
  The 
  point 
  that 
  struck 
  me 
  most 
  about 
  my 
  father 
  was 
  his 
  very 
  deep 
  

   religious 
  feeling. 
  It 
  was 
  not 
  quite 
  the 
  ordinary 
  everyday 
  religion, 
  but 
  it 
  

   permeated 
  his 
  business 
  and 
  his 
  whole 
  life. 
  One 
  of 
  my 
  earliest 
  recollections 
  

   of 
  this 
  was 
  once 
  walking 
  across 
  Horsell 
  Common 
  with 
  him 
  on 
  a 
  Sunday, 
  and 
  

   I 
  picked 
  up 
  a 
  Carabid 
  beetle 
  which 
  he 
  had 
  never 
  taken 
  in 
  the 
  district 
  before 
  — 
  

   I 
  forget 
  which 
  one 
  it 
  was 
  but 
  I 
  remember 
  it 
  was 
  very 
  green 
  — 
  and 
  he 
  would 
  

   not 
  let 
  me 
  take 
  it 
  as 
  it 
  was 
  Sunday. 
  I 
  remember 
  being 
  very 
  sad 
  as 
  I 
  knew 
  

   he 
  wanted 
  it. 
  Next 
  day 
  he 
  sent 
  me 
  out 
  to 
  see 
  if 
  I 
  could 
  find 
  it 
  again, 
  but, 
  

   of 
  course, 
  it 
  had 
  gone 
  ' 
  He 
  would 
  never 
  collect 
  any 
  living 
  thing 
  on 
  a 
  Sunday. 
  

  

  " 
  In 
  public 
  life 
  he 
  never 
  shone 
  as 
  he 
  was 
  too 
  retiring, 
  but 
  he 
  did 
  a 
  great 
  

   deal 
  of 
  work 
  quietly 
  and 
  unknown 
  to 
  most 
  people. 
  He 
  was 
  not 
  content 
  

   until 
  a 
  Cottage 
  Hospital 
  was 
  made 
  for 
  Woking. 
  He 
  would 
  superintend 
  

   choir 
  practices 
  at 
  the 
  Church 
  because 
  the 
  singing 
  was 
  not 
  up 
  to 
  his 
  ideas 
  

   of 
  worship. 
  He 
  was 
  a 
  great 
  opponent 
  of 
  dull 
  services 
  in 
  the 
  very 
  Evangelical 
  

   Church 
  at 
  Woking. 
  The 
  parson 
  and 
  curates 
  loved 
  him, 
  although 
  he 
  fought 
  

   with 
  them. 
  They 
  also 
  nearly 
  always 
  gave 
  way 
  to 
  him 
  in 
  the 
  end." 
  

  

  Edward 
  Saunders 
  lived 
  successively 
  at 
  Keigate, 
  Wandsworth, 
  and 
  Bromley, 
  

   settling 
  finally 
  at 
  Woking 
  in 
  1887. 
  In 
  1872 
  he 
  married 
  Miss 
  Mary 
  Agnes 
  

   Brown, 
  of 
  Wandsworth, 
  who 
  survives 
  him, 
  with 
  eight 
  of 
  their 
  twelve 
  

   children. 
  One 
  son, 
  Charles, 
  after 
  being 
  wounded 
  at 
  Loos, 
  was 
  killed 
  on 
  

   August 
  18, 
  1916. 
  

  

  To 
  his 
  children 
  he 
  was 
  both 
  kind 
  and 
  generous, 
  although 
  the 
  standard 
  he 
  

   unconsciously 
  set 
  was 
  sometimes 
  rather 
  alarming 
  ; 
  for 
  remembering 
  his 
  own 
  

   youth, 
  but 
  with 
  characteristic 
  modesty 
  unable 
  to 
  recognise 
  its 
  exceptional 
  

   promise 
  and 
  performance, 
  he 
  was 
  led 
  to 
  expect 
  a 
  somewhat 
  discouraging 
  

   level 
  of 
  scientific 
  attainment 
  at 
  an 
  early 
  age. 
  

  

  