Saunders, Robert, 1910 - 1993
Dates
- Existence: 1910 - 1993
Biography
Robert Saunders (1910-1993) was a leading member of Oswald Mosley's British Union of Fascists, and was the District Treasurer for Dorset West before he became District Officer in 1936. As a working farmer, he was particularly concerned about the depressed state of agriculture during the Depression. In common with many other high-ranking members of the British Union, Saunders was interned for a period during World War II.
At the end of 1951 Saunders resigned as local constituency organiser of the Union Movement in order to devote more time to wider agricultural and local community matters, taking up office in the National Farmers' Union, for example. However, although giving up public involvement in local Union Movement activities, and formally resigning from it in 1963, he continued to maintain a close interest in the movement, advising and corresponding with Mosley and other National Headquarters officials, mainly on agricultural and food policy matters, until 1970.