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Maurice John Kingscote

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Captain Maurice John Kingscote (1887-1959) was a British polo champion.

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Biography

He was the son of Thomas Arthur Fitzhardinge Kingscote and his wife Hon. Evelyn Mary Gifford. He won the Roehampton Trophy in 1922, 1923 and 1929.

Family

Kingscote was thrice married (the first two marriages ending in divorce). He was killed in a car crash, leaving issue one daughter Mrs Brassey (later Lady Brassey) and one son Michael.

His son Michael John Fitzhardinge Kingscote (b. 1950), born of his third marriage in 1947, is father of one son and one daughter, whose society wedding was reported in the Daily Mail in early November 2016. His daughter by his first marriage (1916, dissolved 1936), Joyce Patricia Kingscote (1917-2006), was wife of Sir Hugh Trefusis Brassey (1915-1990), nephew of Henry Brassey, 1st Baron Brassey of Apethorpe and his sister Hilda Brassey, Duchess of Richmond, Lennox & Gordon, and a grandson of Henry Brassey (1840-1891) of that prominent Victorian railway-building family. Her husband was Lord Lieutenant of Wiltshire until 1989.

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