Museum of Polo and Hall of Fame
The Museum of Polo and Hall of Fame is a 501(c)(3), non-profit organization to celebrate the sport of polo.[1][2][3][4][5]
Overview
[edit]It was founded by four polo players, H. Jeremy Chisholm, Philip L. B. Iglehart, Leverett S. Miller, and George C. Sherman, Jr. in Lexington, Kentucky in 1988.[1][2][3][4] The first inductions into the hall of fame were in 1990.[5][6] In 1997, it was relocated to a ten-acre estate in Lake Worth, Florida.[2][3][4][7]
The museum includes a trophy by Paul Storr and paintings by Franklin Brooke Voss, George Derville Rowlandson and Paul Brown.[1]
Honorees
[edit]- See footnote[8]
- Rodolphe Louis Agassiz (1871–1933)
- Mariano Aguerre
- Lester Armour, III
- Michael V. Azzaro[9]
- Harold A. Barry
- Harold L. Barry
- Paul W. Barry
- Roy M. Barry
- Carlton Beal
- James Gordon Bennett, Jr.
- Robert D. Beveridge
- Elmer Julius Boeseke, Jr.
- George Herbert Bostwick
- Norman Brinker
- Paul Butler (polo)
- Delmar Carroll
- Clarence C. Combs, Jr.
- Alan L. Corey, Jr.
- John Elliott Cowdin
- Fred W. Dailey
- Bart Evans (polo)
- Hector Galindo
- Elbridge T. Gerry, Sr.
- Stephen M. Gose
- Carlos Gracida
- Guillermo Gracida, Jr.
- Raymond R. Guest
- Winston Frederick Churchill Guest (1906–1982)
- Bennie Gutierrez
- George Haas, Jr.
- W. Averell Harriman (1891–1986)
- W. Ray Harrington, Jr.
- Juan Carlos Harriott, Jr.
- Willis L. Hartman
- Henry Lloyd Herbert
- Julian Hipwood
- Louise Eustis Hitchcock
- Thomas Hitchcock, Jr.
- Thomas Hitchcock, Sr.
- Glen Holden, Sr.
- Philip L. B. Iglehart
- Stewart B. Iglehart
- S.K. (Skey) Johnston
- Foxhall Parker Keene
- Northrup R. Knox
- Lewis Lacey
- William R. Linfoot
- William A. Mayer
- Devereux Milburn
- James P. Mills
- John Murphy
- George K. Oliver
- Stephen A. Orthwein
- John C. Oxley
- John T. Oxley (polo)
- Albert Parsells
- Eric Leader Pedley
- Peter Perkins
- Michael Grace Phipps
- Gonzalo Pieres
- Billy Post
- Owen Rinehart
- Stephen J. Roberts
- Will Rogers
- Charles Cary Rumsey
- Stephen "Laddie" Sanford
- Robert Gould Shaw II[9]
- George C. Sherman, Jr.
- William Sinclaire
- Robert Skene
- Cecil Smith (polo)
- Charles Smith (polo)
- Lewis A. Smith
- Adam Snow
- Malcolm Stevenson (polo)
- Louis Ezekiel Stoddard
- Robert Early Strawbridge, Jr.
- Gonzalo Tanoira
- Robert Uihlein, Jr.
- Robert E. Walton
- James Montaudevert Waterbury, Jr.
- Lawrence Waterbury
- Tommy Wayman
- James Watson Webb, Sr.
- Harry Payne Whitney
- William T. Ylvisaker
See also
[edit]Footnotes
[edit]- 1 2 3 Official website, Introduction
- 1 2 3 Horace Laffaye, Dennis J. Amato, Polo in the United States: A History, Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Company, 2011, p. 289
- 1 2 3 Chisholm Gallery
- 1 2 3 Polosport Archived 2012-03-11 at the Wayback Machine
- 1 2 Victor J. Danilov, Hall of Fame Museums: A Reference Guide, Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing Group, 1997, p. 133
- ↑ "Official website, List of Inductees". Archived from the original on July 15, 2011. Retrieved June 27, 2011.
- ↑ Official website, Contact Us
- ↑ Hall of Fame List of Inductees (Alphabetical) Archived 2011-12-31 at the Wayback Machine. Museum of Polo and Hall of Fame official website. Retrieved 2011-06-26.
- 1 2 Museum of Polo and Hall of Fame: 2013 Hall of Fame Inductees Announced Deprecated link archived 2013-01-31 at archive.today