Colonel Edward Saunderson : Land and Loyalty in Victorian Ireland

Edward Saunderson was the first Irish Unionist leader, and the most prominent defender of Irish landlords in the late nineteenth century. This book is the only modern evaluation of Saunderson's political career. It is a valuable case-study of the origins of organized unionism which documents both the political retreat of a notable gentry clan and the broader connections between Unionist development and landed decline.