Percy O'Reilly

Captain Percy Philip O'Reilly (27 July 1870 to 3 July 1942), of Colamber, County Westmeath, was an Irish polo player who competed at the 1908 Summer Olympics. Together with John Paul McCann, John Hardress Lloyd and Auston Rotheram he was a member of the Ireland team that won a silver medal, and the Ireland team was part of the Great Britain Olympic team. In 1911 he was an eight-goal handicap player. He was the only son of Philip O'Reilly and Anna Maria Nugent, married Alice Eleanor Boyd-Rochfort in 1900, and was made High Sheriff of Westmeath in 1919. His youngest daughter Viola married General Sir Miles Dempsey, commander of the British Second Army during the D-Day landings.