Stanley Vivian Bacon was a British sport wrestler who competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics, 1912 Summer Olympics and the 1920 Summer Olympics.
11 Facts About Stanley Bacon
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Stanley Bacon lived for many years in the Stamford Hill section of London.
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Stanley Bacon competed in the Greco-Roman middleweight competition but was eliminated in the first round.
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Stanley Bacon competed for the British olympic team again in 1912, but he was eliminated in the second round of the Greco-Roman middleweight event at the 1912 Summer Olympics.
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From 1921 to 1922 Stanley Bacon was an advisor to the Olympic committee of the Second Polish Republic and Czechoslovakia.
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In 1928 Stanley Bacon travelled to the Netherlands to be a judge at the 1928 Summer Olympics.
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Stanley Bacon lived in Kenya from 1921 until March 1938, when he returned to England to attend the funeral of two family members.
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Stanley Bacon was "mortified" by the Munich Agreement, and he became an early supporter of Duff Cooper and Winston Churchill over the issue at the time this made him an outlier, as the Munich Agreement was largely popular in Britain when it occurred.
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Stanley Bacon supported Britain's declaration of war against Nazi Germany in response to the Nazi invasion of Poland.
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Stanley Bacon stayed in England throughout the duration of the war.
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Stanley Bacon lost contact with all of his friends in Czechoslovakia after the 1948 Czechoslovak coup d'etat.