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

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 ...

Newport, Rhode Island Newport is an American seaside city on Aquidneck Island in Newport County, Rhode Island. It is located in Narragansett Bay, approximately southeast of Providence, Rhode Island, Providence, south of Fall River, Massachusetts, south of Boston, ...

in 1876 alongside Captain

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Malcolm Orme Little Brigadier-General Malcolm Orme Little, (29 November 1857 – 1 February 1931) was a cavalry officer in the British Army and champion polo player. He commanded a cavalry brigade in the Second Boer War and a yeomanry brigade in the First Wo ...

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Richard Lawley, 4th Baron Wenlock Lieutenant-Colonel Richard Thompson Lawley, 4th Baron Wenlock, 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 was born on 21 Aug ...

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