George C. Sherman, Jr.
George Carter Sherman, Jr. (c. 1911 – February 3, 1986) was an American polo player.[1][2]
Biography
George Sherman graduated from Yale University in 1934.[1][3] He was captain of the polo team in his freshman year, and he promoted college polo alongside Robert A. Graviss.[4]
He served as senior vice president of Rollins Burdick Hunter, the insurance broker, and chairman of its office in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.[2] He served as Chairman of the Indoor Polo Association, and the United States Polo Association in Lexington, Kentucky from 1960 to 1966.[1][4] He was also involved with the Gulfstream Polo Club in Lake Worth, Florida.[1]
In 1988, he founded the Museum of Polo and Hall of Fame alongside H. Jeremy Chisholm, Leverett S. Miller, and Philip L. B. Iglehart.[1][5][6][7][8] He was inducted into its Hall of Fame in 1998.[9]
He donated a painting by Chester Harding, 'Portrait of a Lady,' to the Yale University Art Gallery.[3] On February 3, 1986, he died at the age of 74 of leukemia in New York.[10]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Museum of Polo and Hall of Fame
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Correction, The New York Times, February 10, 1986
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Yale University Art Gallery
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Equestrian Life
- ↑ Museum of Polo and Hall of Fame website, Introduction
- ↑ Horace Laffaye, Dennis J. Amato, Polo in the United States: A History, Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Company, 2011, p. 289 [1]
- ↑ Chisholm Gallery
- ↑ Polosport
- ↑ Polo Hall of Fame inductees
- ↑ http://www.nytimes.com/1986/02/06/obituaries/george-sherman-jr-leading-polo-official.html
