OBITUARY

Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 74, 29 March 1939, Page 11

OBITUARY

LORD SANDERSON

(British Official Wireless.)

RUGBY, March iff.

Lord Sanderson, who, though blind from birth, achieved high academic honours and was for nine years principal of Ruskin College, Oxford, died on Saturday, aged 71 years. He was formerly a prominent member of the Labour Party, and was created a peer in 1931.

Henry Sanderson Furniss, first Baron Sanderson, was born in 1868 and was educated privately and at Hertford College, Oxford. He was virtually blind from birth. He won a second class in the Modern History School at Oxford, and later became a lecturer and tutor in economics at Ruskin College there. From 1916 to 1925 he was principal of the college. He was a member of the central executive of the W.E.A., and in 1918 was Labour candidate for Oxford at the General Election. In 1930 he was raised to the peerage, and he was later a member of the Joint Committee of both Houses of Parliament on the London Passenger Transport Pill, on water resources and supplies, and on gas prices. Last year he resigned from the Labour Party. He published a number of books, and in 1917 was editor of the "Industrial Outlook." He married in 1902 Miss Averil Nicholl, but there is no heir to the barony.