SE - Capt. E.L. Sanderson - Town Clerk - Dec 1907

Cuckoo - Recently arrived from Johannesburg with his wife and two small daughters. Their hospitable house in Parklands suburb became one of Foran's favourite places of call. The Sandersons told Foran they had lived in a house at Bellevue East in Jo'burg, close to where he had once dwelt in two marquee tents.

Midday Sun - 'Ted and Helen Sanderson had started their new life in tents with two camp beds and sleeping bags, two trunks to sit on, a folding table and very little else. Hyenas howled all round, their whoops and chuckles mingling with the thump of native drums. Later, they moved into a wooden bungalow so rickety that it shook when their terrier ran across the veranda; their bedroom had no windows but 5 doors. When Helen bought some real china cups at a sale, having hitherto made do with chipped tin mugs, she felt 'uplifted'. Amid these primitive conditions - 'we could not get a candlestick so we made a hole in a potato and cut it flat, and it did quite well' - the ladies dressed to the nines when they dined out. In August 1904 a party of 18 invited to Govt. House sat down at a table decorated with pink roses and silk mats, and arches of asparagus fern embellished the doorways. ....….

At a luncheon party at the same venue Helen, properly corseted, wore a white satin and lace blouse, a white scarf and a broad-brimmed black hat. Afterwards they all went to the races where the principal event, a steeplechase, had three entrants; Sir Claud de Crespigny won in a canter. There were only about 12 horses in Nairobi, so the racing must have lacked variety, if not incident. (Meinertzhagen recorded that a rhino had had to be shoo'd off the course before one of the races could start)  One hundred guests, a sizeable proportion of Nairobi's white population, picnic'd with the Governor and his lady in the forest, played games until tea-time, and then danced the Lancers in the open to the music of the KAR band. That evening was something of an anti-climax, however; the Sandersons dined with the bank manager, the cook got plastered and howled outside the door until the host went out and thrashed him, when he howled louder than ever. Helen Sanderson attempted to drown the uproar by pounding on a piano, but when a snake was found under Ted's chair the hostess understandably went off into a fit of hysterics.

Unger - 1909 - Roosevelt's Trip - Captain Sanderson, the town clerk of Nairobi, read an address of welcome to the former President of the United States and afterward handed him the address inclosed in a section of elephant tusk mounted in silver and with a silver chain. (at a dinner given by the Governor, F. Jackson)

Cranworth - The Town Clerk and his wife ..... he, after a most successful regime in Nairobi, left to become the popular Headmaster of Elstree School.

Drumkey 1909 - Member of Municipal Committee, Nairobi (as Town Clerk)

Advertiser - 2/10/1908 - Nairobi Amateur Dramatic Society - "Bluebeard in East Africa" - Capt. Sanderson - a stalwart & handsome Bluebeard

North - Formerly Headmaster of a boys' school in Johannesburg. Daughter 'Kate' joined Uganda Railway School Nairobi 18/5/1905

Roosevelt - dined with Sanderson - the hostess, the host, and the house were delightful.

Cambridge Univ. Alumni: at KING'S, Oct. 5, 1886. [Eldest] s. of the Rev. Lancelot (1857). Schools, Elstree and Harrow. Matric. Michs. 1886; B.A. 1889; M.A. 1894. Assistant Master at Elstree School, 1894-1900. Having strained himself by too much rowing and running at Cambridge, went on a world tour, accompanied by John Galsworthy, and, while on board the wool-clipper Torrens, began a lifelong friendship with the first mate, Joseph Conrad. Served in the S. African War, 1899-1902 (The Yorkshire Regt.; Capt., 1900). In the Transvaal Education Dept., 1902-4. Town Clerk of Nairobi, 1904-10. Head Master of Elstree School, Herts., 1911-35. Married, 1898, Helen Mary, dau. of George Watson, Sheriff of Wigtonshire. Died Mar. 23, 1939, at Saunton, N. Devon. Brother of Henry G. H. (1894) and John M. (1889). (Harrow Sch. Reg.; Schoolmasters' Directories; King's Coll. Reg.; The Times, Mar. 25, 1939.)