Humphrey Patrick Guinness (24 March 1902 – 10 February 1986) was a

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polo Polo is a stick and ball game that is played on horseback as a traditional field sport. It is one of the world's oldest known team sports, having been adopted in the Western world from the game of Chovgan (), which originated in ancient ...

player who competed in the

1936 Summer Olympics The 1936 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XI Olympiad () and officially branded as Berlin 1936, were an international multi-sport event held from 1 to 16 August 1936 in Berlin, then capital of Nazi Germany. Berlin won the bid to ...

Biography

Guinness was born in

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on 24 March 1902, and was educated at

Eton College Eton College ( ) is a Public school (United Kingdom), public school providing boarding school, boarding education for boys aged 13–18, in the small town of Eton, Berkshire, Eton, in Berkshire, in the United Kingdom. It has educated Prime Mini ...

and the

Royal Military College, Sandhurst The Royal Military College (RMC) was a United Kingdom, British military academy for training infantry and cavalry Officer (armed forces), officers of the British Army, British and British Indian Army, Indian Armies. It was founded in 1801 at Gre ...

. His father Lt-Col Eustace Guinness DSO died at Bakenlaagte in the

Second Boer War The Second Boer War (, , 11 October 189931 May 1902), also known as the Boer War, Transvaal War, Anglo–Boer War, or South African War, was a conflict fought between the British Empire and the two Boer republics (the South African Republic and ...

. His mother was Isabel, daughter of Charles Bell, J.P., of

Woolsington Hall Woolsington Hall is a Grade II* listed country house in a estate, in the village of Woolsington, in the city of Newcastle, England, north-west of Newcastle city centre, and immediately south of Newcastle Airport. In addition to the hall, the s ...

, Northumberland, England. His great-grandfather

Robert Rundell Guinness Robert Rundell Guinness (12 December 1789 – 7 March 1857) was an Anglo-Irish banker, most noted for co-founding the Guinness Mahon bank in 1836. The grandson of Dublin goldbeater Samuel Guinness (1727–1795), he is the first of the "banking ...

(1789-1857) founded the

Guinness Mahon Guinness Mahon was an Irish merchant bank originally based in Dublin but more recently with operations in London. History Formation The firm was founded as a land agency in Dublin in 1836 by barrister Robert Rundell Guinness, a great-nephew of t ...

bank in 1836. Guinness participated in the 1930 and 1936

International Polo Cup The International Polo Cup, also called the Newport Cup and the Westchester Cup, is a trophy in polo that was created in 1886 and is played for by teams from the United States and England. Matches were conducted 12 times between 1886 and 1939, su ...

. He became part of the British polo team, which won the silver medal in 1936. He played both matches in the tournament, the first against Mexico and the final against Argentina. During

World War II World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War II, Allies and the Axis powers. World War II by country, Nearly all of the wo ...

he served as a

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in the

Royal Scots Greys The Royal Scots Greys was a cavalry regiment of the Army of Scotland that became a regiment of the British Army in 1707 upon the Union of Scotland and England, continuing until 1971 when they amalgamated with the 3rd Carabiniers (Prince of ...

.thepeerage.com entry, seen Sept 2012
/ref> In 1946 he married Gladys, daughter of Major William Edward Gatacre. Guinness died on 10 February 1986 in

Trowbridge Trowbridge ( ) is the county town of Wiltshire, England; situated on the River Biss in the west of the county, close to the border with Somerset. The town lies south-east of Bath, Somerset, Bath, south-west of Swindon and south-east of Brist ...

, at the age of 83.

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* 1902 births 1986 deaths People educated at Eton College Graduates of the Royal Military College, Sandhurst English polo players Olympic polo players for Great Britain Polo players at the 1936 Summer Olympics Olympic silver medallists for Great Britain Roehampton Trophy International Polo Cup Medalists at the 1936 Summer Olympics Olympic medalists in polo Humphrey Patrick {{UK-polo-bio-stub