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Oswald Sanderson (3 January 1863 – 25 December 1926) was an English businessman, best known for his involvement in the Wilson Line of Hull and later the Ellerman Wilson Line.
Sanderson was born on 3 January 1863 in Oxton, Cheshire the son of Richard Sanderson a general merchant. He was educated at King's Ely.[1]
He started work at the offices of the Wilson Line in Hull, his father was an agent for the company in New York.[1] After he gained some experience at Hull he joined his father in New York.[1] He returned to Hull in 1901 at the request of Charles and Arthur Wilson to become Managing Director at Thomas Wilson Sons & Co. until its sale to Ellerman Lines in 1916 where he continued as Managing director of the combined Ellerman Wilson Line until he died.[1]
During the First World War Sanderson was appointed honorary colonel of the 2nd Northumbrian Brigade, Royal Field Artillery on 8 August 1914.[2]
On 1 September 1916, he was appointed a temporary major in the 1st Volunteer Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment,[3] and became honorary commandant of the regiment, as an honorary lieutenant-colonel, on 1 September 1918.[4][5]
He was again appointed to a temporary majority in the battalion, with the precedence of his previous appointment, on 13 January 1919.[6] On 28 June 1919, he was appointed a deputy lieutenant of the East Riding of Yorkshire.[7]
Sanderson married Beatrice Marion Fitch Beddal and they had three sons and a daughter.[1] He died on 25 December 1926 aged 63 in a Nursing Home in Leeds following an operation.[1]
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