Sir Edward Saunders (died 12 November 1576) was an English judge and Chief Justice of the Queen's Bench.
Saunders became one of the king's Serjeants on 11 February 1547, and was in the commission for the sale of church lands in the town of Northampton.
In the same month he was head of a special commission for the trial of Thomas Stafford (died 1557) and others on the charge of seizing Scarborough Castle.
In 1557 he and Francis Morgan, serjeant-at-law, were granted the manors of Weston under Wetherley in Warwickshire and Newbold in Northamptonshire.
Sir Edward Saunders died on 12 November 1576, and was buried in the church at Weston under Wetherley, where there is a monument in the east end of the north aisle.
[9] By his first wife Saunders had an only daughter, Mary,[10] who married Thomas, son of Francis Morgan, the co-grantee of the manors of Weston under Wetherley and Newbold.