Frederick Agnew Gill
Gill (far right) and the All Ireland Polo Club team of 1922 | ||
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1900 Paris | Team competition |
Captain Frederick Agnew Gill (born May 1873 - died 4 June 1938) was a British army officer and a polo player in the 1900 Summer Olympics. He was polo manager at the Ranelagh Club in London.[1]
Biography[]
He was born in 1873 and educated at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. On 13 March 1893 he was appointed a second lieutenant of the 3rd Dragoon Guards.[2]
At the 1900 Olympics he was part of the team, which won the bronze medal for polo.
At the outbreak of the First World War he rejoined the British Army as a second lieutenant in the Queen's Own Oxfordshire Hussars on 26 August 1914.[3] On 1 December 1914 he was given a temporary promotion to captain.[4] He was granted the permanent rank of captain on 21 January 1916.[5]
After the war, he represented the All Ireland Polo Club in their 1922 visit to the USA.[6]
He died in 1938.
References[]
- ^ "Frederick Agnew Gill". Olympedia. Retrieved 27 December 2020.
- ^ "No. 26382". The London Gazette. 14 March 1893. p. 1616.
- ^ "No. 28879". The London Gazette. 25 August 1914. p. 6701.
- ^ "No. 28991". The London Gazette (Supplement). 27 November 1914. p. 10150.
- ^ "No. 29540". The London Gazette (Supplement). 7 April 1916. p. 3773.
- ^ Laffaye, Horace A. (2012). Polo in Britain: A History. Jefferson: McFarland & Company. p. 104. ISBN 9780786489800.
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- English polo players
- Polo players at the 1900 Summer Olympics
- Olympic polo players of Great Britain
- Olympic bronze medallists for Great Britain
- Roehampton Trophy
- Medalists at the 1900 Summer Olympics
- Olympic medalists in polo