Sir Ernest Sanger (17 July 1875 - 26 December 1939).
Born in Notting Hill Gate, he was the son of Charles Sanger, a wholesale druggist, and Jessie Alice née Pulford. Ernest also entered business as a wholesale druggist and lived in Marylebone. He became chairman of Sangers Limited.
He entered local politics as a member of the Conservative backed Municipal Reform Party. He was councillor and later an alderman on St Marylebone Borough Council and served as Mayor of the Borough in 1920-21.
In 1916 he was appointed to the London County Council to fill a wartime vacancy in the representation of Marylebone West. When elections resumed in 1919 he was elected a councillor for St Marylebone, holding the seat at six subsequent elections until his death. He was Chairman of the London County Council for 1931-32.
He was knighted in the New Year Honours 1936 for "political and public services in St. Marylebone".