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

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player who competed in the

1936 Summer Olympics The 1936 Summer Olympics (German: ''Olympische Sommerspiele 1936''), officially known as the Games of the XI Olympiad (German: ''Spiele der XI. Olympiade'') and commonly known as Berlin 1936 or the Nazi Olympics, were an international multi-sp ...

Biography

He was born on 24 March 1902, and was educated at

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and the

Royal Military College, Sandhurst The Royal Military College (RMC), founded in 1801 and established in 1802 at Great Marlow and High Wycombe in Buckinghamshire, England, but moved in October 1812 to Sandhurst, Berkshire, was a British Army military academy for training infantry a ...

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

Second Boer War The Second Boer War ( af, Tweede Vryheidsoorlog, , 11 October 189931 May 1902), also known as the Boer War, the Anglo–Boer War, or the South African War, was a conflict fought between the British Empire and the two Boer Republics (the Sout ...

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

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, Northumberland, England. His great-grandfather

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

(1789-1857) founded the

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bank in 1836. He 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 1876 and was played for by teams from the United States and United Kingdom. The match has varied in length over the years ...

. 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

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he served as a

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in the

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

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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 of 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