Robert Sanders, 1st Baron Bayford

Lieutenant-Colonel The Right Honourable The Lord Bayford PC


Treasurer of the Household
In office 1918–1919
Monarch	George V
Prime Minister	David Lloyd George
Preceded by	James Craig
Succeeded by	Bolton Eyres-Monsell
Personal details
Born	20 June 1867
Died	24 February 1940
Spouse(s)	Lucy Halliday (m. 1893-1940)
Alma mater	Balliol College, Oxford

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, Sanders 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.

Sanders 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 Yeomanry, serving at Gallipoli, and in Egypt and Palestine. He was appointed a deputy lieutenant of Somerset in 1912.

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 and appointed to the Privy Council in 1922, entitling him to the style "The Right Honourable".