Baptist minister and educator. Pastor in New York and New Jersey; Headmaster, Peddie School; President, Colgate Rochester Divinity School, 1949-60.

From the New York Times, May 15, 1979: The. Rev. Dr. Wilbour Eddy Saunders, president emeritus of the Colgate Rochester Divinity School and former headmaster of the Peddie School of Hightstown, N.J., died Saturday at his home in Webster, N.Y. He was 84 years old. Dr. Saunders had been president of the divinity school from 1949 until his retirement in December 1960. In 1962, he presented the school with a gift of $100,000. He remained active after his retirement, serving as interim senior minister of the Irondequoit United Church in 1964 and beginning a three‐year term as president of Keuka College. at Keuka Park, N.Y., the following year. He was a trustee of Brown University, from which he 1 graduated in 1916. He was born in Warwick, R.I., and received a master's degree from Teachers College at Columbia University in 1918. He graduated from Union Theological Seminary in 1919 and later completed graduate work at Christ College, Cambridge University, in England. He was student assistant pastor at West Park Presbyterian Church in Manhattan and at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Brooklyn. Later he was an assistant pastor of the Marcy Avenue Baptist Church in Brooklyn, to which he returned as pastor in 1927, after serving the First .Baptist Church in Rahway, N.J., for four years. During most of his last year at the Marcy Avenue Church, which he left in 1933, he served also as general secretary of the Brooklyn Federation of Churches. He resigned both positions to become executive secretary of the Federation of Churches of Rochester and Monroe County. He was headmaster at Peddie from 1935 to 1998. He had also served as chaplain at the New Jersey State Reformatory. While a resident of New Jersey he helped write the state's new Constitution. He also spent a year as a teacher of English at Horace Mann High School. He is survived by his wife, Esther, and a daughter, Marjorie Obrecht of New York City.