SANDERSON, Sir Frank Linton SANDERSON 3rd Bt 1933-2023

[Richard R]

From the Telegraph of 16 Nov 2023: SANDERSON Frank, 3rd Baronet OBE, peacefully at home aged 89 on 9th November 2023. Funeral at St Bartholomew's Church, Burwash on 27th November at 11.30 a.m., followed by a reception. A bus will meet the train at Etchingham Station at 10.35 a.m. Donations direct to St Bartholomew's Church.

He died 12 days short of his 90^th birthday. He was s of Sir Frank Philip Bryan SANDERSON 2^nd Bt 1910-92 and Annette Irene Caroline 1908-67 d of Col Vincent KORAB-LASKOWSKI of Warsaw, Poland. He m 1961 Margaret Ann d of John Cleveland MAXWELL of New York, and had two sons and three daus. His eldest son succeeds him:

[Sir] David Frank SANDERSON [4^th Bt] b 26 Feb 1962, has yet to establish claim. He m 1990 Fiona Jane  b Dec 1961 d of Robert Bruce URE b Jan 1934 by his 1956 reg Q3 Bristol to Barbara M LANE, and had a dau.

DAUGHTER LIVING

Hannah Clare b 1997

BROTHER LIVING

MICHAEL JOHN b 1 March 1965. He m 2011 Valeria LUGARO of Rome. No known issue.

 

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DPB Online has updated this page.

The top five in the  line of succession is now as follows:

1. MICHAEL JOHN (b. 1965), baronet's brother

2. Peter Bryan  (b. 1946), baronet's uncle

3. John Maxwell (b. 1938) baronet's cousin (descended from younger son of 1st Baronet)

4. Christian Maxwell (b. 1968), son of John

5. Oscar Maxwell (b. 2006), son of Christian

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Obit in the Telegraph -  Sir Frank Sanderson, businessman behind Battle of the Somme museum at Lutyens’s Memorial for the Missing – obituary (telegraph.co.uk)

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Sir Frank Sanderson, businessman behind Battle of the Somme museum at Lutyens’s Memorial for the Missing – obituary

A museum at the hallowed site was controversial, but he raised £700,000 from over 2,300 donors, many of them pensioners who sent in £5 notes

Sir Frank Sanderson, 3rd Bt, who has died aged 89, successfully campaigned for the erection of a museum about the Battle of the Somme next to Lutyens’s great arch, the Memorial to the Missing, at Thiepval.

In the late 1990s, Sanderson, a retired insurance broker and chairman of his local branch of the Royal British Legion, was an usher at the annual remembrance service at Thiepval. Afterwards, he was accosted by women looking for the lavatory, but he was told that there were none. “We must build some!” said the baffled Sanderson. Colonel Piers Storie-Pugh, the British Legion’s Head of Remembrance Travel, replied that, if they did, they might as well build a proper visitors’ centre….

Frank Linton Sanderson was born on November 21 1933 to Sir Bryan Sanderson, 2nd Bt, and his Polish-born wife Annette (née Korab-Laskowska). The baronetcy had been created in 1920 for his grandfather, Frank Bernard Sanderson, a successful Yorkshire businessman and Conservative MP, for his unpaid wartime work as Controller of Trench Warfare National Shell Filling Factories and Stores, Ministry of Munitions, and of Aircraft Ammunition Filling, and Chemical Ammunition Filling….

In 1961, he married the New Yorker, Margaret Ann Maxwell. He worked in Minet as a marine insurance broker for the majority of his career, with a short break in the 1960s, when he worked for his wife’s family, who ran Knott Hotels and the Westbury in London. He was Master of the Currier’s Company in 1993-94.

Storie-Pugh described Sanderson as a man with “a most incisive brain and a bulldog-like determination”. Tall and distinguished, he was noted for his courtesy.

In 2005 he was appointed OBE.

He is survived by his wife and by three daughters and two sons, the older of whom, David, succeeds in the baronetcy.

Sir Frank Sanderson, born November 21 1933, died November 9 2023

[Richard R]

Obit in the Times of 13 Dec 2023:

Sir Frank Sanderson Bt obituary

Businessman whose steely determination and consummate charm led to a Battle of the Somme museum at Thiepval

…Frank Linton Sanderson, the third baronet of Malling Deanery, in the Parish of South Malling, Sussex, was born in 1933, the eldest of three, to Sir Bryan Sanderson, the second baronet, and his Polish-born wife Annette (née Korab-Laskowska). The baronetcy had been created in 1920 for his grandfather, a Yorkshire businessman and Unionist MP who had served unpaid as a controller in the Ministry of Munitions during the First World War. During the Second World War, his father served with the Fleet Air Arm, while Sanderson himself was brought up in Sussex by his mother, grandmother and their French maid. The language of the household was French, with Polish pilots stationed near by also using the house as a mess.

After Stowe School and National Service, Sanderson was offered a place at Oxford but, on discovering that it was for the following year, he decided to go instead for a year to the University of Salamanca, where he became fluent in Spanish too.

In 1961 he married Margaret Ann Maxwell, a New Yorker whom he had met on a blind date in the Polo Bar of the Westbury in London. For 40 years he worked in the City as a marine insurance broker, succeeding to the baronetcy in 1992. His wife and their five children survive him: David, a barrister, who becomes the fourth baronet; Michael; Caroline, a livery manager; Kate; and Nina, a director…

Sir Frank Sanderson Bt OBE, insurance broker and war memorial fundraiser, was born on November 21, 1933. He died of T-cell lymphoma on November 9, 2023, aged 89

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/sir-frank-sanderson-bt-q3vv6n32b

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Sir David Frank SANDERSON is now entered on the Official Roll of the Baronetage as the 4th Baronet Sanderson of Malling Deanery