 He was created a Baronet in the 1920 New Year Honours and appointed to the Privy Council in 1922, entitling him to the style "The Right Honourable".He sat for Wells from 1924 to 1929, when he was raised to the peerage as Baron Bayford, of Stoke Trister in the County of Somerset.Sanders married Lucy Sophia, daughter of William Halliday, in 1893.