William Sanderson
English historian
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, William Sanderson was an English historian. Career Sanderson was secretary to Henry Rich, 1st Earl of Holland, when Holland was chancellor of the university of Cambridge. James Howell describes him as being from his youth bred up at court, and "employed in many negotiations of good consequence both at home and abroad". He suffered in the cause of Charles I, and was made a gentleman of the privy chamber by Charles II and knighted. Holland had made him a grant of the Paddock Walk, Windsor Park, which was confirmed at the Restoration. On 7 June 1671 a pension of £200 per annum was granted to Sanderson and his wife jointly. He died 15 July 1676, aged ninety, according to his epitaph, and was buried in Westminster Abbey. John Evelyn attended his funeral and describes him as "author of two large but mean histories and husband to the mother of the maids".
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