Raymond Rodgers Belmont
{{Short description|American polo player}}
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Raymond Rodgers Belmont (July 19, 1863 – January 31, 1887) was a champion polo player who killed himself in 1887 with a gunshot.
Biography
He was born on July 19, 1863, to August Belmont and Caroline Slidell Mackenzie Perry. He attended Harvard University.
He participated in the 1886 International Polo Cup with teammates William Knapp Thorn, Foxhall Parker Keene and Thomas Hitchcock, Sr.
He died on January 31, 1887, in New York City by shooting himself in the side of the head with a pistol. He was 23 years old.{{cite news |title=Young Mr. Belmont's Death. Accidentally Shooting Himself While Practicing With A Pistol |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1887/02/01/104008250.pdf |newspaper=The New York Times |page=8 |date=February 1, 1887 |access-date=2023-04-13}}{{cite news |title=A Young Man's Fate |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1930&dat=18870131&id=oRogAAAAIBAJ&sjid=i2YFAAAAIBAJ&pg=2925,2841624&hl=en |newspaper=Lewiston Saturday Journal |place=New York |page=2 |date=January 31, 1887 |access-date=2023-04-13 |via=Google News Archive}} He was buried in the Common Burying Ground and Island Cemetery in Newport, Rhode Island.{{cite news |title=Raymond Belmont Buried |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1887/04/12/100906307.pdf |newspaper=The New York Times |page=1 |place=Newport, Rhode Island |date=1887-04-11 |publication-date=April 12, 1887 |access-date=2023-04-13}}
References
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External links
- {{Find a Grave|28536069}}
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Category:American people of German-Jewish descent
Category:American polo players
Category:Suicides by firearm in New York City
Category:Burials at Common Burying Ground and Island Cemetery
Category:Harvard University alumni
Category:International Polo Cup
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