Maurice_John_Kingscote

Maurice John Kingscote

Maurice John Kingscote

British polo player

Captain Maurice John Kingscote (30 July 1887 – 5 June 1959) was a British polo champion.[1][2]

Biography

He was born on 30 July 1887. He was the son of Thomas Arthur Fitzhardinge Kingscote and Evelyn Mary Gifford.

He won the Roehampton Trophy in 1922, 1923 and 1929.[3] He died in 5 June 1959 in an car accident.[4]

Family

Kingscote was married three time, the first two marriages ending in divorce:

  • He married Violet Owen Lord, and had a daughter Joyce Kingscote, who married Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Hugh Trefusis Brassey.[5][6] Maurice and Violet divorced in 1936.
  • He married Kathleen Sarah Vestey, daughter of Samuel Vestey, 2nd Baron Vestey and Frances Sarah Howarth.
  • He married June Darby Philips in 1947, and had a son, Michael John Fitzhardinge Kingscote (born 1950).

References

  1. [1]
    "Maurice John Kingscote". The Polo Encyclopedia.
  2. [2]
    The Old Public School Boys. Eton College. 1933. p. 460. Kingscote, Maurice John, younger son of Thomas Arthur Fitzhardinge Kingscote, CVO, of Watermoor House, Cirencester, … Recreations: hunting and polo
  3. [3]
    Horace A. Laffaye (10 January 2014). Polo in Britain: A History. p. 306. ISBN 9780786489800.
  4. [4]
    "Maurice John Kingscote Dies". The Manchester Guardian. 6 June 1959.
  5. [5]
    "Obituary: Hugh Trefusis Brassey". The Telegraph. 12 April 1990.
  6. [6]
    "Miss Joyce Kingscote Recovers Consciousness". The Manchester Guardian. 26 July 1935. Retrieved 4 November 2017.
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