Captain Frederick Agnew Gill (25 May 1873 to 4 June 1938) was a British Army officer and a polo player at the 1900 Summer Olympics. He was born in Castletown on the Isle of Man and died at Emery Down. He was educated at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, and was appointed a second lieutenant in the 3rd Dragoon Guards in 1893. At the 1900 Olympics he was part of the Bagatelle Polo Club de Paris team, which won the bronze medal. He rejoined the army at the outbreak of the First World War in the Queen's Own Oxfordshire Hussars and reached the rank of captain. He was polo manager at the Ranelagh Club in London, and after the war he represented the All Ireland Polo Club on its 1922 visit to the USA.
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Born 25 May 1873
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Competed In: 1900 Summer Olympics, Results
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