Luke Tomlinson is a professional polo

Polo

Polo is a team sport played on horseback in which the objective is to score goals against an opposing team. Sometimes called, "The Sport of Kings", it was highly popularized by the British. Players score by driving a small white plastic or wooden ball into the opposing team's goal using a...

 player and is currently captain of the England

England

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 polo team, with a handicap of seven goals in Britain and eight in Argentina.

Biography

Tomlinson, who along with his family owns the Beaufort Polo Club, was born into a family of polo players in Gloucestershire

Gloucestershire

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 and was educated at Eton

Eton College

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 and the University of the West of England

University of the West of England

The University of the West of England is a university based in the English city of Bristol. Its main campus is at Frenchay, about five miles north of the city centre...

 (UWE), Bristol

Bristol

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. He has a younger brother and a sister, both of whom are international polo players (Emma as an amateur with a two-goal handicap, and Mark Tomlinson

Mark Tomlinson

Mark Tomlinson is a professional polo player who plays for the England polo team, with a handicap of seven goals in Britain and six in Argentina.-Biography:...

, a professional with a seven goal handicap in Britain).

He is one of the top polo players in Britain. So far, he has won the Queen's Cup, Gold Cup and the Coronation Cup. Tomlinson is playing in England, Spain and Argentina. He took part in the qualifications for the Campeonato Argentino Abierto de Polo

Campeonato Argentino Abierto de Polo

The Campeonato Argentino Abierto de Polo is the most important international polo championship at club level, that has taken place every year since 1893 at the Catedral del Polo in Palermo barrio in Buenos Aires, Argentina.It was known as the River Plate Polo Championship between 1893-1923, and as...

 2008 (Argentine Open) with his team Alegría Park Hyatt, but lost against the El Paraiso team.

Luke courted controversy in 2004 when he, along with Otis Ferry

Otis Ferry

Charles Frederick Otis Ferry, born is a British fox hunting enthusiast and prominent pro-hunting protestor. He is the son of singer Bryan Ferry and model Lucy Helmore. Ferry is joint master huntsman of the South Shropshire hunt....

 and six other pro-hunt protesters, stormed the House of Commons

British House of Commons

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 in protest at anti-hunting legislation. All eight were convicted of violating the Public Order Act

Public Order Act

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, were each fined £350 and given 18-month conditional discharges.

External links

• Beaufort Polo Club