Eric Horace Tyrrell-Martin
{{Short description|English polo player}}
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Eric Horace Tyrrell-Martin (30 April 1905 – 21 April 1953) was an English international polo player. At the height of his career, he held a nine goal handicap.{{Cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9i-bgOjaVysC&q=roehampton&pg=PA97 |title = The Evolution of Polo|isbn = 9780786454150|last1 = Laffaye|first1 = Horace A.|date = 2009-09-12}}
Biography
Tyrrel-Martin played for England in the 1936 and 1939 International Polo Cup.{{cite web|url=http://www.westchestercup.org/archives.htm |title=2009 Westchester Cup International High Goal Polo |accessdate=2012-02-14 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120302201426/http://www.westchestercup.org/archives.htm |archivedate=2012-03-02 }} He also won the 1939 US Open Polo Championship with Bostwick Field team.{{cite web |url=http://www.sportpolo.com/History/Champions.htm |title=US Open Champions |accessdate=2010-10-26 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110218190908/http://www.sportpolo.com/History/Champions.htm |archivedate=2011-02-18 }}
Born in Yorkshire, he attended Rugby and Cambridge before becoming a Lieutenant in the 16/5th Lancers in 1926,London Gazette 3 September 1926 resigning his commission in 1929.London Gazette 12 July 1929
In 1924 he changed his name from Horace Eric Martin to Eric Horace Tyrrell-Martin.
He was invited to represent England at the Olympic Games in Berlin in 1936, but wasn't able to accept.
He was commissioned into the RAF in October 1941, leaving as a Squadron-Leader in 1946.
He died in 1953 as a result of injuries sustained while playing polo.