Robert Sanders, 1st Baron Bayford

Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Arthur Sanders, 1st Baron Bayford PC JP (20 June 1867–24 February 1940) was an English politician.

The son of Arthur Sanders, of Fernhill, Isle of Wight, he was born in Paddington, London, and educated at Harrow and Balliol College, Oxford where he graduated with 1st class honours in Law. He became a barrister at the Inner Temple in 1891.

He was Conservative Member of Parliament for Bridgwater, Somerset from 1910 until 1923. During this time he also served from 1911 to 1917 as a Lieutenant-Colonel with the Royal North Devon Hussars, serving at Gallipoli, and in Egypt and Palestine.

He was Treasurer of the Household (Government Deputy Chief Whip in the House of Commons), 1918–1919, and a junior Lord of the Treasury from 1919 until 1921. He then held ministerial office as Under-Secretary of State for War from 1921 to 1922 and Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries from 1922 to 1924. He was created a Baronet in the 1920 New Year Honours [LondonGazette |issue=31712 |date=30 December 1919 |startpage=2 |supp=yes] and appointed to the Privy Council in 1922, entitling him to the style "The Right Honourable".

He sat for Wells from 1924 to 1929, when he was raised to the peerage as 1st Baron Bayford, of Stoke Trister. As his only son committed suicide in 1920, the title became extinct on his death.

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*Biography, "Oxford Dictionary of National Biography"
*"Who Was Who"