Major Philip Magor was a British 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 patron

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 of the Panthers Polo Team as well as owner of La Estrella Ranch in Argentina. Magor and the Panthers won the Roehampton Trophy

Roehampton Trophy

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Biography

He was born in 1881 and educated at the Rugby School

Rugby School

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. His parents owned the Williamson Tea company

Williamson Magor

Williamson Magor is one of the largest tea plantation groups in India, producing over 75 million kg annually. This represents about a fifth of the total tea produced in Assam. Williamson Magor owns 57 tea estates in Assam and West Bengal and provides direct employment to over 110,000 people...

. He played for the Ranelagh Club from 1908 till 1939, though he played in America and France as well. He served in the British Army Remount Department in World War I

World War I

World War I , which was predominantly called the World War or the Great War from its occurrence until 1939, and the First World War or World War I thereafter, was a major war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918...