Pablo Escandón

José Pablo Eustaquio Manuel Francisco de Escandón y Barrón was a Mexican polo player who took part in the 1900 Summer Olympics. Born in Mexico City on 4 May 1856 into an old aristocratic family with extensive haciendas in nearby Morelos, he was briefly the Porfirian governor there in 1909 to 1911 before being deposed in the Mexican Revolution. His two younger brothers, Manuel and Eustaquio, also played Olympic polo. At the Paris Games the Mexican team, which also included Guillermo Hayden Wright, won a bronze medal after tying for third place with the Bagatelle Polo Club de Paris, a medal that was officially recognised only after earlier results were revised. He died in Mexico City on 31 March 1929.