Harry Llewellyn

Harry Llewellyn medal table
Show jumping
United Kingdom
Olympic games
bronze	1948	Show jumping, team
gold	1952	Show jumping, team

Sir Henry ("Harry") Morton Llewellyn, 3rd Baronet CBE (born July 18, 1911 in Aberdare , † November 15, 1999 in Abergavenny ) was a British show jumper and gold medalist.

life and career

Harry Llewellyn was born in 1911 in Aberdare, South Wales , the second of three sons of the Welsh mine owner Sir David Llewellyn, 1st Baronet . He grew up near Abergavenny in Monmouthshire . He attended boarding Oundle School in Oundle , Northamptonshire and studied at Trinity College of Cambridge University . He then went to the British Army .

Harry Llewellyn achieved his first successes as a show jumper as early as the 1930s. So he finished second at the Grand National in 1936 . His equestrian career was interrupted by the outbreak of World War II. He served as a liaison officer for Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery in Italy and Normandy with the rank of Colonel .

After the war ended, Harry Llewellyn returned to his riding career. After a long search, in 1947 he acquired the then 7-year-old horse Foxhunter , with whom he achieved international success. In 1948 Harry Llewellyn won the bronze medal in team show jumping with Foxhunter at the Summer Olympics in London . At the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki Llewellyn won the gold medal in team show jumping with Foxhunter. After 1952, Llewellyn started a chain of cafes called Foxhunter . In 1990 he was inducted into the Welsh Sports Hall of Fame for his sporting merits . On New Year's Day 1953, Llewellyn was accepted into the Order of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II for his sporting merits as Commander .

Upon the death of his older brother Sir Rhys Llewellyn, 2nd Baronet, he inherited the title of Baronet , of Bwllfa, Aberdare, in the County of Glamorgan , in 1978 . He was married to Christine Saumarez (1916-1998), the daughter of the 5th Baron de Saumarez . The couple had a daughter, Anna, born in 1946, and two sons, Dai (actually David), born in 1946, and Roddy (Roderic), born in 1947, who in 1973 had an eight-year love affair with Princess Margaret , the younger, sixteen years his senior Sister of Queen Elizabeth II made the headlines.

Harry Llewellyn died in 1999. His ashes were scattered next to the grave of his horse Foxhunter, who died in 1959, at the coordinates 51 ° 47 ′ 31.2 ″  N , 3 ° 4 ′ 8.3 ″  W on Blorenge Mountain between Abergavenny and Blaenavon in the southeast of the Brecon Beacons National Park .

Literature and web links

• Charles Mosley (Ed.): Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage . Volume 2, Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, Wilmington 2003, p. 2370.
• Sir Henry Morton Llewellyn, 3rd Bt. On thepeerage.com

Individual evidence

1. ^ Eddie Butler: Olympic torch route, day 7. Abergavenny's hero, a horse called Foxhunter. The Guardian, May 25, 2012.

predecessor	title	successor
Rhys Llewellyn	Baronet, of Bwllfa 1978-1999	David Llewellyn