Frank Sandon Explained

Frank Sandon
Birth Date:	3 June 1890
Birth Place:	Islington, London, England

Frank Sandon (3 June 1890  - 29 May 1979) was a British swimmer.^[1] He competed in the men's 100 metre backstroke event at the 1912 Summer Olympics.^[2]

Sandon studied mathematics at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge finishing as a Wrangler. He joined the Home office but found he was 'too remote from real people' so after the First World War became a schoolmaster. He taught at Highgate School from 1921 to 1923 and at various grammar schools, becoming headmaster of Plymouth Corporation Grammar School, founded in 1562, for eight years until its closure in 1937. A strong believer in co-education, in 1941 Sandon was appointed headmaster of Millom County Secondary School in Millom, Cumberland.^{[3] [4] [5]} He wrote or contributed to numerous books on statistics.^[6]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Frank Sandon . Olympedia . 7 June 2021.
2. Frank Sandon Olympic Results . https://web.archive.org/web/20200418042920/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/sa/frank-sandon-1.html . dead . 18 April 2020 . 29 August 2016.
3. Book: Hughes . Patrick . Highgate School Register 1833-1988 . 92 . 7th.
4. Sandon . Frank . A secondary school in a remote area . 10.1080/03057875080000211 .
5. Web site: Corporation Grammar School . Old Plymouth . 15 October 2019 . 1 September 2018 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180901233405/http://oldplymouth.uk/Corporation%20Grammar%20School.htm . dead .
6. Web site: Frank Sandon . 15 October 2019.