Racing driver and pilot. Born Thomas Essery 'Tim' Rose-Richards, in Mayals, Glamorgan, Wales, he was a sportscar driver who drove for the ERA works team in the 1935 Eiffel Grand Prix. He entered the Le Mans 24hr Race five times, and in 1931 (with Owen Saunders Davies) he came 3rd. Other successes was a 4th in the 1934 Dieppe GP and a 3rd in the Eiffel GP. In 1935 he was awarded the BRDC (British Racing Drivers Club) Gold Star. At the outbreak of war he enlisted in the Fleet Air Arm (RNVR) as a pilot. It was whilst stationed with 765 Squadron RNVR at HMS Daedalus, a shore station at Lee-on-Solent, that his aircraft crashed into the sea eight miles south of Anvil Point, Dorset.
Racing driver and pilot. Born Thomas Essery 'Tim' Rose-Richards, in Mayals, Glamorgan, Wales, he was a sportscar driver who drove for the ERA works team in the 1935 Eiffel Grand Prix. He entered the Le Mans 24hr Race five times, and in 1931 (with Owen Saunders Davies) he came 3rd. Other successes was a 4th in the 1934 Dieppe GP and a 3rd in the Eiffel GP. In 1935 he was awarded the BRDC (British Racing Drivers Club) Gold Star. At the outbreak of war he enlisted in the Fleet Air Arm (RNVR) as a pilot. It was whilst stationed with 765 Squadron RNVR at HMS Daedalus, a shore station at Lee-on-Solent, that his aircraft crashed into the sea eight miles south of Anvil Point, Dorset.
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