Frederick Freake

Sir Frederick Charles Maitland Freake, 3rd Baronet, was a British polo player who won silver medals at two Olympic Games. Born on 7 March 1876 and educated at Magdalene College, Cambridge, he played for the BLO Polo Club Rugby team that took silver at the 1900 Summer Olympics, and eight years later won silver again as a member of the Hurlingham Club at the 1908 Summer Olympics. In 1920 he succeeded to the Baronetcy of Cromwell House and Fulwell Park. He served as president of Fulwell Golf Club from 1931 to 1938, lived at the Old Manor House in Halford, Warwickshire, and was High Sheriff of Warwickshire in 1939. He died on 22 December 1950.