Edwin Saunders

I often do a short news item at the start of each month summarising the amount of "traffic" (i.e. visits) this website receives. As you'll know if you've read these posts, last month we had just over 2,500 unique visitors, which usually means between 130 and 250 visitors a day.

Well, on Saturday 6th April, something strange happened: in that one day alone we had 1,275 visits - almost nine times our usual traffic. And here's what people were looking for: information on Sir Edwin Saunders, who lived on Wimbledon Parkside and who was Dentist to Queen Victoria.

I wrote about Sir Edwin in my post about English Heritage Blue Plaques and he also features in my Putney Quiz, which is the reason why those search results directed visitors to my website. But if anyone can reveal the sudden reason there was such interest in him on Saturday 6th April do let me know!

UPDATE: I've just been told that this was a quiz question in The Times, so that's that mystery solved!