Richard Sanderson

Richard Sanderson (baptised 4 January 1784 – 28 October 1857) was a British merchant, banker, and Conservative and Tory politician. Early life and family Born near Doncaster, Yorkshire, Sanderson was the son of Thomas Anderson of Armthorpe and Sarah née Cromack, daughter of John Cromack. In 1833, he married Charlotte Matilda Manners-Sutton, daughter of Charles Manners-Sutton, 1st Viscount Canterbury, and they had at least 10 children — six sons, and four daughters, including Thomas Sanderson, 1st Baron Sanderson. Business career Early in his adult life, Sanderson became a clerk in London bill-broking firm Richardson, Overend, and Company, where the quaker Samuel Gurney was a partner—which some historians suggest means Sanderson may also have a quaker upbringing. By 1827, Sanderson was operating as a bill broker but at his own business, dominating the London market in the later years of that decade alongside Gurney's business, then renamed Overend, Gurney and Company—both at Lombard Street in London. In 1837, Sanderson moved his business to King William Street, London; in 1847, that business then had to suspend payment, before being able to trade again in early 1848.