Alexander Saunderson

Colonel Alexander Saunderson (1783–1857) [1] was a Whig MP for Cavan 1826–1831. He was a landed gentleman with 12,000 acres. Although from the Protestant planter tradition, he supported Catholic Emancipation.[2]

Alexander Saunderson was a keen racing yachtsman on Lough Erne and a founder member c. 1818 of the group that became Lough Erne Yacht Club. He designed and built fast sailing boats at Castle Saunderson – as did his son and successor Edward. One of his most successful boats he called Bluestocking. His mother and aunt were Bluestockings. He may also have been a member of the Royal Dublin Society.[3]

  1. ^ Alvin Jackson, ‘Saunderson, Edward James (1837–1906)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004
  2. ^ The Observer, THE CATHOLIC QUESTION, 15 March 1829
  3. ^ Michael Clarke, Historian Lough Erne Yacht Club. www.leyc.net.