Frank MacKey

Frank Joseph MacKey was an Irish-American polo player and businessman, born in Gilboa, New York, on 20 March 1852. He was part of the Foxhunters Hurlingham polo team that won the gold medal at the 1900 Summer Olympics in Paris. In business he founded Household Finance Corporation, later HSBC Finance, in 1878. After a long illness he shot himself in Minneapolis on 24 February 1927, aged 74, while terminally ill, and left his fortune to his much younger widow, Olga Leighton. Soon after his death she married the Spanish aristocrat Antonio Cabeza de Vaca, 10th Marquess of Portago, and became the mother of the sportsman Alfonso de Portago and the socialite Sol de Moratalla.