Irish Olympic Competitors - John Hardress Lloyd, Edward Allman-Smith, Richard Gregg, Henry Murphy, Auston Rotheram, John Paul McCann (Paperback)

Chapters: John Hardress Lloyd, Edward Allman-Smith, Richard Gregg, Henry Murphy, Auston Rotheram, John Paul McCann, Percy O'Reilly, Walter Campbell, William Graham, Henry Brown, George Mayberry, . Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 30. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Brigadier-General John Hardress Lloyd (14 August 1874 - 28 February 1952) was an Anglo-Irish soldier and polo player. He was awarded a DSO and made a Chevalier of the Legion d'Honneur for his service in the British Army during the First World War. As a polo player he won a silver medal with the Ireland team at the 1908 Summer Olympics. Hardress Lloyd was born into an Anglo-Irish family with connections to County Offaly. He was the son of John Lloyd, a lawyer, and Susanna Frances Julia Colclough. He was the second of their seven children and their oldest son . On 5 August 1903 he married Adeline Wilson. They did not have any children . Hardress-Lloyd is the great uncle of John Lloyd, the TV producer behind the Blackadder series . As a polo player, Hardress Lloyd, together with John Paul McCann, Percy O'Reilly and Auston Rotheram, was a member of the Ireland team that won a silver medal at the 1908 Summer Olympics. The Ireland team was part of the Great Britain Olympic team. In 1911 he also captained the England team that played in the United States Hardress Lloyd was commissioned in the 4th Royal Irish Dragoon Guards on 10 October 1894. He served in the Tirah Campaign on the North West Frontier in 1897-98 and then in the Second Boer War. Between March 1901 and September 1902 he served as aide-de-camp to Lieutenant-General Sir E. L. Elliot. On the outbreak of the First World War he served on the Western Front before joining Major-General Beauvoir De Lisle's 1st Cavalry Division staff. He followed De Lisle to Gallipoli when the...http: //booksllc.net/?id=11171952