Devereux Milburn

Devereux Milburn (1881 to 1942) was an American champion polo player of the early to mid twentieth century, remembered as possibly the best player the country ever produced. He was born in Buffalo, New York, the son of the lawyer and politician John George Milburn, who chaired the 1901 Pan-American Exposition where President McKinley was shot. At Lincoln College, Oxford, Milburn won a rowing blue, swam for the university and guided the Oxford University polo team to two successive Varsity victories, each by a margin of 14 goals. He was one of a group of Americans known as the Big Four in international polo and won the Westchester Cup six times. In the First World War he served as a major in the field artillery in France, and afterwards he practiced law at his father's firm, Carter Ledyard and Milburn.