Robert Saunders (1910-1993) was a farmer, who became a leading member of Oswald Mosley’s British Union of Fascists (BUF), serving as the District Treasurer and then later District Officer for the Dorset West District. Due to his involvement in the BUF, he was interned during the Second World War under Defence Regulation 18B from 3 June 1940 to 15 September 1941. He was detained at Walton Gaol, Ascot and York Racecourse Internment Camps, Peel Internment Camp in the Isle of Man and Brixton Prison.

After the Second World War, Saunders’ became a Constituency Organiser for the Union Movement (UM). He was also a member of the UM Agricultural Group and played a prominent part in the formation of Union Movement’s agricultural policy, summarised in the pamphlet titled, “None Need Starve”. At the end of 1951, Saunders resigned as local Constituency Organiser but continued to serve as Union Movement Agricultural Group Organiser.

Saunders formerly resigned from the UM in 1963, and went on to become increasingly involved in the National Farmers Union. However, he continued to maintain a close interest in the UM, advising and corresponding with Mosley and other National Headquarters officials, mainly on agricultural and food policy matters, until 1970. He wrote about his life in his unpublished memoir titled, ‘A Tiller of Several Soils’. He died in 1993.