Maurice John Kingscote
Captain Maurice John Kingscote (30 July 1887 – 5 June 1959) was a British polo champion.[1][2]
Biography
[edit]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
[edit]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
[edit]- ^ "Maurice John Kingscote". The Polo Encyclopedia.
- ^ 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
- ^ Horace A. Laffaye (10 January 2014). Polo in Britain: A History. p. 306. ISBN 9780786489800.
- ^ "Maurice John Kingscote Dies". The Manchester Guardian. 6 June 1959.
- ^ "Obituary: Hugh Trefusis Brassey". The Telegraph. 12 April 1990.
- ^ "Miss Joyce Kingscote Recovers Consciousness". The Manchester Guardian. 26 July 1935. Retrieved 4 November 2017.