William Henry Patten-Saunders
1831–99
Champion athlete and novelist. Captain in the Russian Imperial Guard. Published the novel Black and gold (1864).
Sources
CDEL
Census returns of England and Wales 1861 (The National Archives: Public Record Office RG9/221/145/5)
England & Wales, national probate calendar (index of wills and administrations), 1858–1966, 1973–95 (Ancestry.com, accessed 16 October 2018)
Modern English biography
Somerset, England, Church of England baptisms, 1813–1914 (Ancestry.com, accessed 16 October 2018)
Bibliography
CDEL: A critical dictionary of English literature, and British and American authors, living and deceased, from the earliest accounts to the middle of the nineteenth century … with forty indexes of subjects. By S. Austin Allibone. 3 vols. London: Trübner. Philadelphia: Childs & Peterson; J. B. Lippincott. 1859–71. A supplement to Allibone’s critical dictionary of English literature and British and American authors. Containing over thirty-seven thousand articles (authors), and enumerating over ninety-three thousand titles. By John Foster Kirk. 2 vols. Philadelphia and London: J. B. Lippincott. 1891.
Modern English biography: Modern English biography, containing many thousand concise memoirs of persons who have died since the year 1850. By Frederick Boase. 3 vols. and supplement (3 vols.). Truro, Cornwall: the author. 1892–1921.
