Sir Alfred Rawlinson, 3rd Baronet

Colonel Sir Alfred Toby Rawlinson, 3rd Baronet (17 January 1867 to 1 June 1934) was an English soldier and intelligence officer, sportsman, pioneer motorist and aviator. The second son of Major-General Sir Henry Creswicke Rawlinson, 1st Baronet, he was educated at Eton College and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, and commissioned into the 17th Lancers. As a polo player he was in the winning team of the inter-regimental tournament in India in 1889 and won the Hurlingham Champion Cup in 1896 and 1902, and at the 1900 Summer Olympics in Paris he was a member of the Foxhunters Hurlingham polo team that won the gold medal. He also raced motor cars, finishing seventh in the 1908 Isle of Man Tourist Trophy, and in 1910 he became the third person in the United Kingdom to hold a Royal Aero Club aviator's certificate.