Captain Claude Champion de Crespigny was a British soldier and polo player, born on 11 September 1873 and died on 18 May 1910. The eldest of nine children of Sir Claude Champion de Crespigny, 4th Baronet, he was educated at Eton and was commissioned in the 2nd Life Guards in 1895. He served in the Second Boer War, was twice recommended for the Victoria Cross and was appointed a Companion of the Distinguished Service Order in 1900. He later served with the Southern Nigeria Regiment and as aide-de-camp to the Viceroy of India, Lord Curzon. A successful polo player, he won the Roehampton Cup in 1907 and 1908 and was selected for the Hurlingham Club team that travelled to America in 1910, the year of his death.
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