title: James Ebenezer Saunders
text: # James Ebenezer Saunders
  
  James Ebenezer Saunders FRIBA (1829/30 – 24 November 1909) was a British architect and Liberal politician.
  
  ## Career
  
  Allinson states that Robert Worley, of the architectural practice Worley & Saunders, was "involved in all kinds of speculative developments".
  
  Robert Worley and James Ebenezer Saunders formed the architectural practice Worley & Saunders.
  
  Worley and Saunders designed the London Pavilion (now part of the Trocadero Centre), Piccadilly Circus.
  
  He was made a Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects in 1866. In 1868, he became a member of the Metropolitan Board of Works, until 1885.
  
  Saunders twice stood as a Liberal candidate for parliament at Dartford; at the General Election 1885 and at the General Election 1886, coming second on both occasions.
  
  ## Buildings
  
  His surviving buildings include:
  
  * London Pavilion with Robert Worley (1885)
  
  ## Personal life
  
  His sons Martin Luther Saunders and Herbert Stanley Saunders were also architects.
  
  