High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Major Thomas "Robin" Valerian Dixon, 3rd Baron Glentoran CBE (born 21 April 1935) is a former British bobsledder and Northern Irish politician, known before 1995 as Robin Dixon. He is currently Conservative Shadow Minister for the Olympics.Dixon was educated at Eton and Grenoble in France and after university, he served with the Grenadier Guards from 1954 to 1966. In 1964 he was granted leave from the army to participate in the 1964 Winter Olympics at Innsbruck and it was here that he won the gold medal with fellow bobsledder, Tony Nash and was awarded a MBE a year later. Nash and Dixon also won three medals in the two-man event at the FIBT World Championships with one gold (1965) and two bronzes (1963, 1966).