Bob Dixon (athlete) in the Royal Canadian Air Force. Serving as a test pilot in the RCAF, he died in an airplane crash in Grosse Isle, Manitoba during World War II. He was later inducted into the Richmond Sports Wall of Fame. Bob Dixon (athlete) Robert Samuel "Bob" Dixon (1907–11 January 1941) was a Canadian track and field athlete who competed in the javelin throw. In a comparatively weak field, he won the gold medal at the 1934 British Empire Games ahead of the local opposition in London, throwing to beat South Africa's Harry Hart (who was winner of the shot put and
Thomas Sanderson, 1st Baron Sanderson was raised to the peerage as Baron Sanderson, of Armthorpe in the County of York. Sanderson's nickname was 'Lamps' due to his strong spectacles. He died unmarried at Wimpole Street, London, in March 1923, aged 82, when the barony became extinct. Thomas Sanderson, 1st Baron Sanderson Thomas Henry Sanderson, 1st Baron Sanderson (11 January 1841 – 21 March 1923) was a British civil servant. He was Permanent Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs between 1894 and 1906. Sanderson was born at Gunton Park, about six miles north of Aylsham, Norfolk, the second son of Richard Sanderson, Member of Parliament for