Frank MacKey
| Medal record | ||
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| Men's polo | ||
| Representing a File:Olympic flag.svg Mixed team | ||
| Olympic Games | ||
| Gold medal – first place | 1900 Paris | Team competition |
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Frank Joseph MacKey (March 20, 1852 in Gilboa, New York – February 24, 1927 in Minneapolis, Minnesota) was an Irish-American polo player in the 1900 Summer Olympics. He was part of the Foxhunters Hurlingham polo team which won the gold medal.[1][2] He also was a businessman, founding Household Finance Corp (HSBC Finance) in 1878.[2]
After a long illness, he shot himself at 74[2] while terminally ill and left to his much younger widow, Olga Leighton (aged 34), his enormous fortune[3] ($500 million)[4]. Soon after his death, Olga married a Spanish aristocrat, Antonio Cabeza de Vaca, 10th Marquess of Portago, and became mother of two, the sportsman Alfonso de Portago and the socialite Sol de Moratalla.[4]
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