Captain John Henry Watson was an Irish champion polo player.Horace A. Laffaye, ''Polo in Britain: A History'', Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Co., 2012, p. 33 He won the

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in 1876 alongside Captain

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, Malcolm Orme Little, and Captain the Hon.

Richard Lawley, 4th Baron Wenlock Lieutenant-Colonel Richard Thompson Lawley, 4th Baron Wenlock, Order of the Bath, CB (1856–1918) was a British Army officer and polo champion who became the 4th Baron Wenlock and the 11th Lawley Baronet of Spoonhill in 1912. Early life Lawley ...

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