Vanity Fair Print - Polo Player by G. A. Fothergill

Men of the Day 728. Major Michael Rimington.
'He is descended from Edward Longshanks, he is two-and-a-half inches more than six feet, and he was born at Penrith forty years ago. Unusall for a soldier he went to Oxford and took a degree: after rowing in the Keble Eight, playing in its Cricket Eleven an in its football team, jumping hurdles and hunting, and generally behaving athletically. But he did not begin polo till he got to Sandhurst; after which he joined ithe Iniskilling Dragoons in South Africa ..... He is one of our bets polo players and Honorary Secretary of the All-Ireland Polo Club.'

(A full biography is supplied with this print).

Condition: Good, slight buckling to top margin, close bottom margin due to extra large image, not cropped.