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thumb The Beaufort Polo Club is a polo club in Gloucestershire, England.〔(Official website, About )〕〔Horace A. Laffaye, ''The Evolution of Polo'', Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, 2009, p. 23〕〔Horace A. Laffaye, ''Polo in Britain: A History'', Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, 2012, p. 19; 127〕〔(BusinessWeek profile )〕 ==History== It was started by Captain Frank Henry in 1872, when he returned from the 9th Queen's Royal Lancers and joined the Gloucestershire Royal Yeomanry.〔〔〔〔 Players included members of the Duke of Beaufort's Hunt, under the presidency of Henry Somerset, 9th Duke of Beaufort.〔〔〔 It was located at Big Field in Norton, between Malmesbury and Hullavington on the Pinkney Estate.〔〔〔 In 1929, Herbert C. Cox, a Canadian polo player, revived it at Down Farm, alongside the Westonbirt Arboretum near Tetbury.〔〔 It fell in abeyance in 1939.〔 In 1977, Simon and Claire Tomlinson, of the Los Locos polo team, bought Down Farm.〔〔〔〔〔Horace A. Laffaye, ''Profiles in Polo: The Players Who Changed the Game'', Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, 2007, p. 211〕 They revived the club and it joined the Hurlingham Polo Association in 1989.〔〔 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.〔Ingrid Seward, ''William & Harry: A Portrait of Two Princes'', Arcade Publishing, 2003, p. 260 ()〕〔Tim Graham and Peter Archer,''William: Hrh Prince William of Wales'', Atria Books, 2003, p. 198 ()〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Beaufort Polo Club」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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