George C. Sherman, Jr.

George Carter Sherman, Jr. (c. 1911 – February 3, 1986) was an American polo player.[1][2]

Biography

George Sherman graduated from Yale University in 1934.[1][3] He was captain of the polo team in his freshman year, and he promoted college polo alongside Robert A. Graviss.[4]

He served as senior vice president of Rollins Burdick Hunter, the insurance broker, and chairman of its office in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.[2] He served as Chairman of the Indoor Polo Association, and the United States Polo Association in Lexington, Kentucky from 1960 to 1966.[1][4] He was also involved with the Gulfstream Polo Club in Lake Worth, Florida.[1]

In 1988, he founded the Museum of Polo and Hall of Fame alongside H. Jeremy Chisholm, Leverett S. Miller, and Philip L. B. Iglehart.[1][5][6][7][8] He was inducted into its Hall of Fame in 1998.[9]

He donated a painting by Chester Harding, 'Portrait of a Lady,' to the Yale University Art Gallery.[3] On February 3, 1986, he died at the age of 74 of leukemia in New York.[10]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 Museum of Polo and Hall of Fame
  2. 1 2 Correction, The New York Times, February 10, 1986
  3. 1 2 Yale University Art Gallery
  4. 1 2 Equestrian Life
  5. ↑ Museum of Polo and Hall of Fame website, Introduction
  6. ↑ Horace Laffaye, Dennis J. Amato, Polo in the United States: A History, Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Company, 2011, p. 289
  7. ↑ Chisholm Gallery
  8. ↑ Polosport
  9. ↑ Polo Hall of Fame inductees
  10. ↑ http://www.nytimes.com/1986/02/06/obituaries/george-sherman-jr-leading-polo-official.html
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