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'''Sir Lancelot Sanderson''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|KC}} (24 October 1863 – 9 March 1944) was a British [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]] politician and judge in [[British India]].<br />
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A [[barrister]] of the [[Inner Temple]], he was appointed [[Recorder (judge)|Recorder]] of [[Wigan]] in 1901<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=27378|page=7472|date=19 November 1901}}</ref> and [[took silk]] in 1903.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=27531|page=1415|date=3 March 1903}}</ref><br />
He was elected as [[Member of Parliament]] (MP) for the [[Appleby (UK Parliament constituency)|Appleby division]] of [[Westmorland]] at the [[January 1910 United Kingdom general election|January 1910 general election]], regaining a formerly Conservative seat which had been held by [[Liberal Party (UK)|Liberal]] MPs since [[1900 United Kingdom general election|1900]].<ref name="craig1918-1949">{{cite book<br />
|last=Craig<br />
|first=F. W. S.<br />
|author-link= F. W. S. Craig<br />
|title=British parliamentary election results 1918–1949<br />
|orig-year=1969<br />
|edition=3rd<br />
|year=1983<br />
|publisher= Parliamentary Research Services<br />
|location=Chichester<br />
|isbn= 0-900178-06-X<br />
|page=412<br />
}}</ref> He was re-elected in [[December 1910 United Kingdom general election|the general election of December 1910]], but [[resignation from the British House of Commons|resigned his seat]]<ref name="hoc-resignations">{{cite web|url=http://www.parliament.uk/documents/commons/lib/research/briefings/snpc-04731.pdf |title=Appointments to the Chiltern Hundreds and Manor of Northstead Stewardships since 1850 |author=Department of Information Services |publisher=[[House of Commons Library]] |date=9 June 2009 |access-date=30 November 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110206041753/http://www.parliament.uk/documents/commons/lib/research/briefings/snpc-04731.pdf |archive-date=6 February 2011 }}</ref> and recordership in October 1915, when he was appointed Chief Justice of the [[Calcutta High Court|High Court of Judicature]] in [[Calcutta]] after Justice [[Lawrence Hugh Jenkins]].<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=29368|page=11337|date=16 November 1915}}</ref> Upon his resignation from that position in 1926, Sanderson was appointed to the [[Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council|Privy Council]] and sat on the [[Judicial Committee of the Privy Council]] from 1934 until 1935.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=34211|page=6697|date=25 October 1935}}</ref> He died in [[Lancaster, Lancashire|Lancaster]] aged 80.<br />
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Sanderson was also a [[cricket]]er.<ref>{{cite web|title=Lancelot Sanderson player profile|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/32/32582/32582.html|publisher=CricketArchive|access-date=27 March 2011}}</ref> He played two [[first-class cricket|first-class]] matches; the first for [[Lancashire County Cricket Club|Lancashire]] in 1884, and the second for the [[Marylebone Cricket Club]] four years later.<ref>{{cite web|title=First-class matches played by Lancelot Sanderson|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/32/32582/First-Class_Matches.html|publisher=CricketArchive|access-date=27 March 2011}}</ref><br />
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