Terence Sanders

Terence Robert Beaumont Sanders (2 June 1901 – 6 April 1985) was a British rower who competed in the 1924 Summer Olympics, a lecturer in engineering at Cambridge, an army officer engaged in countering the V2 threat, civil servant and High Sheriff of Surrey.

At Cambridge, Sanders, Maxwell Eley, Robert Morrison and James MacNabb, who had rowed together at Eton, made up the coxless four that in 1922 at Henley won the Stewards' Challenge Cup as Eton Vikings and the Visitors' Challenge Cup as Third Trinity Boat Club[2] Sanders stroked the Cambridge in the Boat Race in 1923 which was won by Oxford.

[3] In 1925 Sanders became a Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge and lectured in engineering.

Sanders joined the Ministry of Supply in 1941 and in 1946 he was appointed Principal Director of Technical Development (Defense).

Maintaining his army role, he was active in Operation Crossbow which was concerned with the threat of V2 rockets.