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Reverend Anthony Saunders, D.D.
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Anthony Saunders, D.D., during his period as Rector of Buxted, was a considerable benefactor to that parish and to Uckfield. He established the free-school at Uckfield for the education of a limited number of boys belonging to Buxted and Uckfield and he established a girls school in Buxted. He gave lands and tenements to financially support these establishments.


See also The Worthies of Sussex by M.A. Lower published in 1865 and Brookers Guide and Directory published in 1888.
Date
Type
Information
Source
 
1649
Born
Horsfield's Sussex
 
1673 to 1719
At St. Margaret's Church in the Parish of Buxted, Sussex; Occupation Rector of Buxted
Buxted The Beautiful
 
31st October 1718
History
Brooker's Guide
 
by his will …… Dr Anthony Saunders provided for the gratuitous education of twelve boys, six of Buxted and six of Uckfield; and bequeathed his library to it, for the use of the schoolmaster and scholars for the time being.
 
7th January 1719
Died
Horsfield's Sussex

No ancestor's report
No descendent's report
Saunder, Saunders, Sander, Sanders, Sandors, Saundes, Saunere family records

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