The Beaufort Polo Club is a polo club in Gloucestershire, England. [1] [2] [3] [4]
The Beaufort Polo Club is a polo club in Gloucestershire, England. [1] [2] [3] [4]
The club was started by Captain Frank Henry in 1872, when he returned from the 9th Queen's Royal Lancers and joined the Gloucestershire Royal Yeomanry. [1] [2] [3] [4] Players included members of the Duke of Beaufort's Hunt, under the presidency of Henry Somerset, 9th Duke of Beaufort. [1] [2] [3] It was located at Big Field in Norton, between Malmesbury and Hullavington on the Pinkney Estate. [1] [2] [3]
In 1929, Herbert C. Cox, a Canadian polo player, revived it at Down Farm, alongside the Westonbirt Arboretum near Tetbury. [2] [3] It fell in abeyance in 1939. [3]
In 1977, Simon and Claire Tomlinson, of the Los Locos polo team, bought Down Farm. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] They revived the club and it joined the Hurlingham Polo Association in 1989. [2] [3] The Tomlinsons' sons, Mark and Luke Tomlinson, are polo players. Charles, Prince of Wales is a patron, and Prince William, Duke of Cambridge has played polo at the club. [6] [7]
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