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David Dawnay
Major-General Sir David Dawnay (10 July 19039 October 1971) was a British Army officer who became Commandant of the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. He was also a British polo player who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics.
Military career.
Born the son of Major the Hon. Hugh Dawnay, son of the 8th Viscount Downe and Lady Susan de la Poer Beresford, daughter of the 5th Marquess of Waterford and educated at Eton and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, Dawnay was commissioned into the
Hugh Dawnay
Major Hugh Dawnay (17 December 1932 – 28 May 2012) was a polo player and author.
Biography.
Hugh Dawnay was born on 17 December 1932 to the Olympic polo player David Dawnay and Lady Katharine Nora de la Poer Beresford. He was educated at Eton College. He was a Major in the British Army 10th Royal Hussars where he began his polo career, reaching a 3-goal handicap, eventually captaining both his regimental team and the British Army polo Team. After leaving the army he became a