Manuel Escandón

José Manuel Escandón y Barrón was a Mexican polo player at the 1900 Summer Olympics, born in Mexico City on 13 August 1857. He married into the Spanish nobility and became consort Marquess of Villavieja, the title by which he was widely known. He was the younger brother of Pablo and the older brother of Eustaquio, and the three brothers played together with Guillermo Hayden Wright on the Mexican team that won the bronze medal in Paris. The five team tournament left Mexico tied for third with the Bagatelle Polo Club de Paris, and the medal was officially recognised only later, when earlier results were updated to current rules. He died in Mexico City on 13 December 1940.