Windsor Holden White (July 18, 1905 – 1976) was an American

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player.

Biography

Early life

White was born in

Cuyahoga County, Ohio Cuyahoga County ( or ) is a large urban county located in the northeastern part of the U.S. state of Ohio. It is situated on the southern shore of Lake Erie, across the Canada–United States border, U.S.-Canada maritime border. As of the 2020 U ...

, the son of Windsor T. White and Delia Holden of

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. He was a scion of the prominent White family of Ohio who made a fortune in the auto industry.Horace A. Laffaye, ''Polo in the United States: A History'', Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, 2011, p. 171

Polo

In 1941, he competed in the U.S. Open Polo Championship as part of the Westbury team, together with

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Earle Hopping Earle Wayne Hopping (October 31, 1882 - January 1963) was an American polo player. He played for the United States in the 1930 International Polo Cup. In that year the American side won the series 10-5 and 14-9. He also had an intercollegiate indo ...

and

Stewart Iglehart Stewart Birrell Iglehart (February 22, 1910 – December 19,1993) was a rancher, ice hockey and polo player. He was born in Valparaíso, Chile but moved to the United States at a young age. As a child he learned to play both ice hockey and p ...

.Horace A. Laffaye, ''Polo in the United States: A History'', Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, 2011, p. 98 However, they lost to the Gulfstream team ( John H. H. Phipps,

Michael Grace Phipps Michael Grace Phipps (January 10, 1910 – March 13, 1973) was an American businessman, champion polo player, owner/breeder of racehorses, and a philanthropist. Biography Michael Phipps was the son of John Shaffer Phipps and Margarita Celi ...

Charles Skiddy von Stade Charles Steele von Stade (November 24, 1919 – April 10, 1945) was an American polo champion. Biography Personal life Charles Steele von Stade was born in Old Westbury, Long Island, New York on November 24, 1919 to Francis Skiddy von Stade, Sr. ...

and

Alan L. Corey, Jr. Alan Lyle Corey Jr. (February 6, 1917 - August 24, 1998) was an American polo player. Overview It ... on March 20, 1992. He was married to Patricia Grace, and they had one daughter, Patricia Corey Montgomerie, and two sons, Alan L. Corey III and ...

). After he moved to England, he became a patron of the Polo Cottage team. The ''Holden White Qualifying Matches'' at the

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are named in his honour. Moreover, the ''Holden White Cup'' at the

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is also named for him.

Personal life

He married Jean Stevenson Graves in New Jersey in 1930. During the Second World War, he was working in England with the U.S.

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. He married secondly Jean Kathleen Mary Fielding, widow of Lt. Hugh Neville Clegg, and daughter of Sir Charles William Fielding (1863–1941; a descendant of the 3rd Earl of Denbigh) and Florence Dixon, on 12 July 1944. They resided at Polo Cottage in

Midhurst Midhurst () is a market town, parish and civil parish in West Sussex, England. It lies on the River Rother inland from the English Channel, and north of the county town of Chichester. The name Midhurst was first recorded in 1186 as ''Middeh ...

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. He died in

Chichester Chichester () is a cathedral city and civil parish in West Sussex, England.OS Explorer map 120: Chichester, South Harting and Selsey Scale: 1:25 000. Publisher:Ordnance Survey – Southampton B2 edition. Publishing Date:2009. It is the only ci ...

in 1976.

References

1905 births 1976 deaths Sportspeople from Ohio People from Midhurst American polo players American emigrants to the United Kingdom People from Chagrin Falls, Ohio Date of death missing {{US-sport-bio-stub