Walter Selby Buckmaster (16 October 1872 – 30 October 1942) was a British

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player in the

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and in the

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Biography

He was born on 16 October 1872 in Wimbledon, Surrey, the son of Thomas Walter Buckmaster (1845–1873) and Emma Caroline Venables (1848–1875). His father's sister, Maria Sarah Buckmaster was the mother of

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, the renowned mathematician and philosopher. Buckmaster was educated at

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and

Trinity College, Cambridge Trinity College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. Founded in 1546 by Henry VIII, King Henry VIII, Trinity is one of the largest Cambridge colleges, with the largest financial endowment of any college at either Cambridge ...

. He played association football for both

and Cambridge and was a member and later Captain of the Cambridge polo team. From Cambridge he had a career in the stock exchange joining with a fellow old Old Reptonian,

Charles Armytage-Moore Charles James Eglantine Armytage-Moore (27 April 1880 – 10 December 1960), founder partner of London stockbrokers Buckmaster & Moore (now Credit Suisse Group). Family background Charles Armytage-Moore came from a background of Irish nobility ...

to become a founding partner in Buckmaster & Moore. He kept up his interest in sport particularly polo, and in 1900 he was part of the

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Polo at the 1900 Summer Olympics At the 1900 Summer Olympics, a polo tournament was contested. Matches were held on 28 May, 31 May, and 2 June. Five teams competed. Most of the teams were of mixed nationality, with British and French athletes competing on three teams. There w ...

polo team which won the silver medal. In 1908 as a member of the

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he won the Olympic silver medal again. Buckmaster was a member of the winning team in the

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, (also called the Newport Cup and the Westchester Cup) in 1902 playing at Hurlingham. The trophy was created in 1876 and was played for by teams from the United States and Great Britain. He married Ida Sarah Blyth in June 1896 in St Marylebone Church, London. They had two daughters, Eulalie Agnes Selby in 1901 and Beryl Evelyn Tracey in 1904. Although he was over age (42), he served in the Great War (1914–1918) in the Service Sanitaire (Ambulance), attached to the French Army. Buckmaster lived initially in London's Mayfair at addresses in South and Stratton Streets during the war years and early 1920s. In 1928 moved to the country living at Moreton Manor,

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and became Master of the Warwickshire Foxhounds. He died on 30 October 1942 at Warwick aged 70.

References

Sources

* The London Gazette, 2 April 1926, Buckmaster & Moore Partnership Notic

* The London Gazette, 26 March 1929, Buckmaster & Moore Partnership Notic

* The New York Times, 30 April 1913, Headline: ‘ENGLISH TEAM POLO TEAM LOSES BUCKMASTER�

* The New York Times, 4 May 1914, Headline: ‘POLO INVADERS WORRIED’ * Bailey's Magazine of Sports & Pastimes: No. 486 August 1900 Vol. LXXIV, Brief biographical article plus full length image in Polo kit * Book: 'Hints for Polo Combination', with Captain

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, London, Vinton & Co. 1910, * National Portrait Gallery: Walter Selby Buckmaster, by Ernest Clarence Elliott, for

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collotype, published 1904 acquired, 198

* Vanity Fair Print: Walter S. Buckmaster, dated 4 September 1907 The Caption Reads 'Buck

* Olympic Sports – Polo 1900/1908

* Newspaper cutting: Boston Evening Transcript, 14 April 1913 (WS Buckmaster Hurt after fall

* Newspaper cutting: The New York Times, 10 August 1913 (Walter Buckmaster hurt after car crash

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'BANNER OF ST EDWARD THE CONFESSOR' This was designed by Christopher Webb and presented in 1945 by Eulalie Buckmaster in memory of her father. On a plate on the banner pole is the inscription "In memory of Walter Selby Buckmaster October 16, 1872: October 30, 1942". It is of cloth of gold embroidered in rich silks with a figure of

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holding a model of the Abbey which he built and a charter of foundation. The shields of arms of St Peter, St John the Evangelist, the Abbey monastery and the Collegiate Church are show

* British Red Cross Society; World War, 1914–1918, Author

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, London (FOR DAUNTLESS FRANCE an account of Britain's aid to the French wounded and victims of the war -reference to W S Buckmaster

* Mr. Poilu Notes and Sketches with the Fighting French, Herbert Ward, Hodder & Stoughton, Londo

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