Tournament Polo. BEAUVOIR DE LISLE (General Sir).

Illustrated with twelve plates by Maurice Tulloch and numerous diagrams.

First edition. 8vo. [218 x 145 x 28 mm]. [8]ff, 181 pp. Newly bound by Bayntun Riviere in half dark green morocco over marbled paper boards, the spine divided into six panels by raised bands, lettered in gilt in the second and fourth, dated at the foot, marbled endleaves, top-edge gilt.
London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1938

General Sir Henry de Beauvoir De Lisle (1864-1955), was a British Army officer serving in both the Second Boer War as well as the First World War, where he commanded the 29th Division for nearly three years, leading them in the Gallipoli campaign and later at the Battle of the Somme. Under his command the 29th Division became known as "The Incomparable 29th" (ODNB).

Beauvoir De Lisle was also a renowned polo player. "He was captain of his battalion polo team (1888-98), and has been described as 'the inventor of modern polo' (McGregor, 89), for introducing team training and tactics into the sport" (ODNB). Following his retirement from the army, he remained much in demand for his polo skills, and spent 1929-30 in India training polo teams for the maharaja of Kashmir.

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