Philip L. B. Iglehart

Philip L. B. Iglehart (1913 – February 9, 1993) was a Chilean polo player.[1][2]

Biography

Philip Iglehart was born in Chile in 1913.[2] He was educated at the Lawrence School in New York City, the Aiken Preparatory School in Aiken, South Carolina, St. Paul's School in New Hampshire and Yale University.[1][2]

During the Second World War, he served as Vice President for operations in the Pacific Ocean of Grace Lines, a shipping company.[2] He then operated a cattle ranch and orange groves near Lake Okeechobee, Florida.[2] From 1964 until 1974, he owned a farm near the Baltimore Country Club in Baltimore, Maryland.[2]

He established the Gulfstream Polo Club in Lake Worth, Florida.[1][2] He helped find a new location for the Meadowbrook Polo Club after it was taken by the construction of a highway.[1][2] In 1988, he founded the Museum of Polo and Hall of Fame alongside H. Jeremy Chisholm, Leverett S. Miller, and George C. Sherman, Jr..[1][2][3][4][5][6][7]

He had two sons and one daughter.[2] His brother was Stewart Iglehart.[2] He lived in Lake Worth, Florida.[2]

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gollark: I wanted to see what that did.
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gollark: Haskell: nice non-brackety flexible sintaxx.
gollark: Let's hope it has enough 0s.

References
  1. Museum of Polo and Hall of Fame biography Archived 2011-12-02 at the Wayback Machine
  2. Obituaries: Philip L. B. IglehartInvestor, polo player The Baltimore Sun, February 12, 1993
  3. Museum of Polo and Hall of Fame website, Introduction
  4. Horace Laffaye, Dennis J. Amato, Polo in the United States: A History, Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Company, 2011, p. 289
  5. Chisholm Gallery
  6. Polosport Archived 2012-03-11 at the Wayback Machine
  7. Jennifer Ehrhardt, Philip L. Iglehart, The New York Times, September 08, 1996
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