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.[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

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Museum of Polo and Hall of Fame biography
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 2.8 2.9 2.10 2.11 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
  7. ↑ Jennifer Ehrhardt, Philip L. Iglehart, The New York Times, September 08, 1996