Philip L. B. Iglehart (1913 – February 9, 1993) was a Chilean American polo player.[1][2]
Biography
editPhilip 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]
References
edit- ^ a b c d e Museum of Polo and Hall of Fame biography Archived 2011-12-02 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l Obituaries: Philip L. B. Iglehart - Investor, polo player The Baltimore Sun, February 12, 1993
- ^ 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 Archived 2012-03-11 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Jennifer Ehrhardt, Philip L. Iglehart, The New York Times, September 08, 1996