Claire Tomlinson

Claire Tomlinson was an English polo player and pony breeder, born Claire Lucas on 14 February 1944, who became the highest-rated female polo player and later coached the English national team she once captained. Her father founded Woolmers Park Polo Club in Hertfordshire in 1949. At Oxford she took up polo, played in the 1964 Varsity Match as the first female player and in 1966 became the first female captain of the university club. In 1986 she became the first woman in the world to rise to five goals, and she was the first woman to win the County Cup in 1972 and the Queen's Cup in 1979, competing on equal terms with men in British high-goal polo. She died on 12 January 2022.