14 Facts About Alfred Saunders

Alfred Saunders was a New Zealand farmer, reformer, women's suffrage and temperance advocate and politician.

Alfred Saunders was Superintendent of Nelson Province and represented several electorate in the House of Representatives.

Alfred Saunders was educated in Market Lavington and at a Bristol academy.

The temperance campaigner Mary Bayly was his sister, Samuel Alfred Saunders was an older brother and William Alfred Saunders was a younger brother.

Alfred Saunders was remarried in England in 1899 to Sarah Box.

Alfred Saunders was elected onto the Nelson Provincial Council representing Waimea South in 1855 and remained a councillor until his election of Superintendent for the Nelson Province from 1865 to 1867.

Alfred Saunders was elected as Member of Parliament for Waimea in 1861, and he resigned from this seat in 1864.

Alfred Saunders then represented Cheviot from 1878 to 1881 when he was defeated.

Alfred Saunders unsuccessfully contested the 1882 by-election in the Wakanui electorate.

Alfred Saunders contested the 1888 by-election in the Ashley electorate and was defeated by John Verrall by just two votes.

Alfred Saunders supported the Temperance Union petition in favour of woman's suffrage to Parliament in 1891.

Alfred Saunders was involved, as an MP, in the political machinations to get legislation passed to give voting rights to New Zealand women, including during the final stages of the legislation in 1893.

Alfred Saunders corresponded with the leader of the suffrage movement, Kate Sheppard, to keep her up-to-date with the fast-changing political situation in parliament as the legislation was being debated.

Alfred Saunders was an author and his published titles include;.