George Mountbatten, 4th Marquess of Milford Haven

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George Ivar Louis Mountbatten, 4th Marquess of Milford Haven (born June 6, 1961 in London ) is a British entrepreneur, peer and polo player with a handicap of 1.

He comes from an old polo dynasty that has been associated with polo since 1877. He comes from the Battenberg-Mountbatten family , which also includes Prince Philip . At the age of 10 he lost his father, which is why he did not grow up in the polo environment. He finally got into polo through his great-uncle Lord Mountbatten . Appropriately, he completed his first training sessions as a player at the Guards Polo Club , but a little later he went to Terry Hanlon's polo academy in Cowdray Park in West Sussex .

In Milland he had the most impressive polo stable in England, the Trippetts Farm, built. The facility covers an area of ​​400 hectares, is shielded from the public by walls and hedges, and offers space for around half a dozen high goal teams, 350 polo ponies and 70 grooms in the high season. The complex also includes polo fields, pastures, a training center, tennis courts and swimming pools.

In 2010 he was the captain of the Julius Baer team at the St. Moritz Polo World Cup on Snow . A year earlier he was a player on this team, which emerged as the tournament winner.

In 2000, he founded uSwitch , a website specializing in comparing offers. In March 2006 he sold the website to the US company EW Scripps for approximately £ 210 million .

Private

Mountbatten was married from 1989 to 1996 and has three children. He is remarried and ranks 484th in line to the British throne because he is descended from Queen Victoria .

Via his paternal grandmother , who is of Russian nobility, he descends from the Russian poet Alexander Pushkin , from Abraham Petrovich Hannibal , an African general of Peter the Great, and from Catherine the Great .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Results of the St. Moritz Polo World Cup on Snow 2013 ( Memento from August 20, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
  2. ↑ uSwitch sale nets Marquess £ 105m ( English ) The Telegraph. March 17, 2006. Retrieved December 2, 2010.
predecessor Office successor
David Mountbatten Marquess of Milford Haven
1970– 		current owner of the title
personal data
SURNAME Mountbatten, George, 4th Marquess of Milford Haven
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Milford Haven, George Ivar Louis Mountbatten 4th Marquess of (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British entrepreneur, polo player and peer
DATE OF BIRTH June 6, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH London