Sir James Sanderson 1st Baronet

  General Notes:

He was the only surviving son of James Sanderson of York . He started business buying and selling hops before becoming a banker at Mansion House Street in Southwark .
In 1785, by which time he was an alderman , he was elected Sheriff of London and knighted whilst in office. In 1792 he was elected Lord Mayor of the City of London .
He was a member of parliament for Wadsworth Hill, Surrey.
He also served as president of Bridewell Hospital, and was a member of William Wilberforce 's Proclamation Society for the Discouragement of Vice.
He was a gentleman of some £5,000 a year, on whom the government had conferred a Baronetcy, in requital of an important service rendered at an acute political crisis.
Sir James, havlng been marrled for seven years, and no sign of a family, rather prematurely as it turned out, decided that he was not going to be blessed with any offspring and a family compact was entered into, by which it was arranged that, at Sir James' death, his eldest grand nephew, Henry, would succeed to the property, taking the arms and name of Sandersen, accompanied with a request to the Government which Sir James had reason to believe weald be granted, that the Baronetcy should be continued to the heir. Thomas, it was arranged should, in this case, succeed to his maternal grandfather's landed Estate, and take the name and arms of Roxby. But this was feted not to be, for, hardly had the arrangement been put into legal shape, when
Lady Sanderson took a hand in the matter and showed signs of increasing
the population. Result, a daughter, and only child, who grew up and, as her father's heiress, inherited all his property. She married a wealthy gentleman, in the north of England, of the name of Burden who, on his marriage, had to assume the name of Sandersen, which he conjoined with his own name, and they became Burden-Sandersen.

James married Elizabeth Judd. (Elizabeth Judd was born in Chelmsford, ESS, England, UK.)

James next married Elizabeth Skinner. (Elizabeth Skinner died in 1817.)