About Nicholas Saunders
Lived 1501 – 1605 (aged 103–104). Nicholas Saunders was a politician.
Nicholas Saunders (died 1605) was an English politician.
He was the only son of Thomas Saunders of Uxbridge, Middlesex and educated at King's College, Cambridge (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 Member (MP) of the Parliament of England for Penryn in 1589, St. Ives in 1593, Helston in 1597 and Lostwithiel in 1601.
He never married.
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English politician
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Nicholas Saunders was born in 1501.
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Nicholas Saunders was a politician.
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