Ronald Ferguson (polo)

Major Ronald Ivor Ferguson, born in 1931 and died in 2003, was a British Army officer and polo manager, first to the Duke of Edinburgh and later for many years to Charles, Prince of Wales. He was commissioned into the Life Guards in 1952 and retired in 1968 with the honorary rank of major. After leaving the army he devoted himself to polo, which brought him into regular contact with the Royal Family. In 1979 he played for the England II team alongside Alan Kent, Patrick Churchward and the Prince of Wales, and won the Silver Jubilee Cup. A 1988 press story about a London health club allegedly led him to leave his post as the Prince of Wales polo manager and his position at the Guards Polo Club, and he was reinstated at the Guards Polo Club shortly before he died. His daughter Sarah married Prince Andrew.