[2] During his employment in the irrigation department of Mysore with the British Government in India he found time for big game hunting which included tigers, elephants and the Indian Bison.

In September 1875, he was put in temporary charge of an elephant catching team of Bengal and worked in the Garo and Chittagong hills.

[5] His techniques were a spectacular success and in 1889 he organised a demonstration to entertain Prince Albert, Duke of Clarence & Avondale, when he visited India.

[6][7][8] Sanderson wrote a book, Thirteen Years Among the Wild Beasts of India,[9][10] based to a large extent on his life at Morlay in the Biligirirangan Hills.

[11] He died of pulmonary phthisis in Chennai at the home of his brother-in-law Dr (later Sir) Arthur M. Branfoot in 1892 shortly after marriage and on the way back for a long leave in England.