Thomas Kemp Sanderson

Thomas Kemp Sanderson was an English corn merchant from Wakefield
in the West Riding of Yorkshire, and a Conservative Party politician.

Early life

He was born at Newmarket, Suffolk, the eldest son in a family of five sons and four daughters of Michael Sanderson of Pocklington and his wife Elizabeth Kemp, daughter of Thomas Kemp of Newmillerdam. He was educated at the West Riding Proprietary School. He went into business as a maltster in the family firm Michael Sanderson & Son.

In politics

Sanderson unsuccessfully contested Wakefield at the 1868 general election, when he was beaten by the Liberal Party candidate Somerset Beaumont.
In 1874 Sanderson did not stand, when the Conservative candidate Edward Green defeated Beaumont. However, Green's election was voided on petition, and at the resulting by-election in May 1874, he won the seat. He was defeated at the 1880 general election by the Liberal candidate Robert Bownas Mackie, another local corn merchant, whom Sanderson had defeated in 1874. He did not stand again.

Later life

From 1893 Sanderson lived with his brother Michael Edwin Sanderson at Kettlethorpe Hall. He died unmarried, and at his death he left £57,359, with Michael as executor and residual legatee. In 1898 a stained-glass window was dedicated to Sanderson on the north side of Wakefield Cathedral, to a design by Charles Eamer Kempe.