Captain Arthur Noel Edwards (10 December 1883 – 25 May 1915) was an English polo player who participated in the 1911 and 1913 International Polo Cup as an alternate.[1]
Origins
editHe was born on 10 December 1883, the second son of Arthur Edwards of Beech Hill Park, Waltham Abbey, Essex,[2] by his wife Hilda Tennant, a daughter of Robert Tennant (1828–1900) of Chapel House in the parish of Conistone, Yorkshire, Member of Parliament for Leeds. His brother was the cricketer Guy Janion Edwards (1881–1962).
Career
editArthur Noel Edwards participated in the 1911 and 1913 International Polo Cup at the Meadowbrook Polo Club as an alternate.[1][3]
He was a Captain in the 9th Queen's Royal Lancers and died in World War I on 25 May 1915 as the result of a poison gas attack by the Germans during the Second Battle of Ypres.[4][5] He was buried in Bailleul Communal Cemetery Extension.
He was later re-interred in High Beech, and there is a memorial to him in the Church of the Holy Innocents, High Beach, Epping, in Essex.[2][5][6]
References
edit- ^ a b "Edwards Plays Polo At Piping Rock". The New York Times. 16 May 1913.
Two members of the English polo team, five of whom arrived in New York on Wednesday evening, engaged in some preliminary practice work yesterday in anticipation of the international matches at Westbury June 10 and 14 against the American four for the Westchester Polo Club (Newport) Trophy, now held by the Meadow Brook team. Captain A. Noel Edwards who will fill the position of number 2 ...
- ^ a b Essex Review: An Illustrated Quarterly Record of Everything of Permanent Interest in the County. 1929. p. 207.
He married in 1880 Hilda, daughter of Rober Tennant of Scarcroft, Yorks, and had three sons, all serving in the war, when Captain Arthur Noel Edwards, the second son, was killed, he was buried at High Beech ...
- ^ Polo in the United States. Arcadia Publishing. 10 January 2014. p. 66. ISBN 9780786480074.
John Hardress Lloyd was joined by four Army captains, Frederick Barrett, Leslie St. C. Cheape and Eustace 'Bill' Palmes, all 10-goalers in India, and Herbert Wilson, a 9-goal handicap player. Lt. Arthur Noel Edwards was the designated spare ...
- ^ "Arthur Noel Edwards". Pro Patria. Retrieved 19 November 2012.
- ^ a b "Arthur Noel Edwards". Church of the Holy Innocents, High Beach. Retrieved 19 November 2012.
Arthur Noel Edwards. Captain 9th (Queens Royal) Lancers. 2nd Son of Arthur Edwards of Beech Hill Park. Born December 10th 1883. Died from gas poisoning near Ypres, Belgium, May 25th, 1915.
- ^ Horace A. Laffaye (2009). The Evolution of Polo. McFarland & Company. ISBN 978-0-7864-3814-3.
It is very true that the First World War robbed the British of some of their top and most promising players: Geoffrey Bowlby, Harold Brassey, Leslie Cheape, Noel Edwards, Francis and Rivy Grenfell, Lord Hugh Grosvenor, Brian Osborne (polo), Bertie Wilson ...