Frederick William Sanderson - Legacy and Commemoration

Legacy and Commemoration

Few of the headmasters during the inter-war period adopted Sanderson's ideas. Wells was particularly critical of Dr Kenneth Fisher, Sanderson's immediate successor at Oundle, for not maintaining the spirit of Sanderson's reformist programme.

The third Hadow Report (Hadow 1927) didn't mention Sanderson by name, but several of his ideas are identifiable therein.

Sanderson House, one of the boarding houses of Oundle School (now and since 2000 a girls' boarding house, after the school began to admit both sexes), is named after Sanderson and was constructed in 1938. From 1992 to 2002, a Sanderson Trust funded the appointment of a Fellow at the school whose task was to further "in every possible way the opportunities open to Oundelians to understand the importance of industry to the prosperity of the nation". The position of Sanderson Fellow survives, although the funding Trust no longer exists.

A bust of Sanderson, by Edward Lacey, once stood in the livery hall of the Grocer's Company. However, in the fire of 1965-09-22 it was completely melted. The original cast was still available, and another bust was made, that stood in the Piper Room until that room's refurbishment in 2001, when the bust was moved elsewhere.