Gerrel saunders biography of william
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SAUNDERS, WILLIAM, pharmacist, scientist, civil servant, and author; b. 16 June 1836 in Crediton, England, son of James Saunders, a shoemaker and Methodist lay preacher, and Jane Wollacott; m. 1 Aug.
1857 Sarah Agnes Robinson, daughter of the Reverend Joseph Hiram Robinson*, and they had a daughter and five sons; d. 13 Sept. 1914 in London, Ont.
William Saunders came to Canada with his parents in 1848 and joined his brother Stephen, who had earlier settled at London.
It is likely that he was privately educated as a child.
Thursday, October 25, Skeletons by Gerrel Saunders.
At the age of 19 he was apprenticed to John Salter, a local druggist. Later in 1855 he opened his own pharmacy, which he subsequently expanded into a pharmaceutical business that sold medicinal extracts made from plants. His interest in plant diseases led him to study entomology and to begin scientific writing.
Saunders was a practical botanist and agriculturalist whose interests initially tended more to the collect