William Henry Patten-Saunders (1831–99)

Champion athlete and novelist. Captain in the Russian Imperial Guard. Published the novel Black and gold (1864).

Sources

CDEL

Census returns of England and Wales 1861 (The National Archives: Public Record Office RG9/221/145/5)

England & Wales, national probate calendar (index of wills and administrations), 1858–1966, 1973–95 (Ancestry.com, accessed 16 October 2018)

Modern English biography

Somerset, England, Church of England baptisms, 1813–1914 (Ancestry.com, accessed 16 October 2018)