ANTHONY CRICHTON-BROWN


ANTHONY CRICHTON-BROWN


TRIBUTE JULY 1943 – JANUARY 2021


I FIRST MET ANTHONY in 1991, at my first Players’ Meeting at Guards Polo Club. I did not know anybody there and no one seemed to take much notice of me. Then a smiling, friendly man came over and Anthony introduced himself. When I commented to him that the members did not seem particularly friendly, he laughed and said: “Don’t worry, the first year I was here the only person that would talk to me was my wife!” Anthony’s easy going, open manner was


one of his defining characteristics. He liked people and in particular he liked meeting new people, making friends young and old across generations. With his down-to-earth Australian manner he was equally open and approachable to players, staff and social members at the Club, and to friends and work colleagues outside it. He had come to polo with a great


sporting background. Anthony’s first love had been sailing. He was a crew member on his father’s yacht, Balandra, which won the Admiral’s Cup in 1967, one of the most


‘ Anthony’s easy going, open manner was one of his defining characteristics. He liked people and in particular he liked meeting new people, making friends young and old across generations’


prestigious sailing trophies in the world. He also competed nine times in the notoriously dangerous Sydney Hobart Yacht Race and won it in 1970. Anthony’s first introduction to polo was


at the Windsor Club outside Sydney in 1975. Thereafter polo became his lasting passion. He joined Guards Polo Club in 1987 after moving to England from Australia with his first wife Edwina, his daughters Samantha and Georgina and son Matthew. It was only natural that he joined Guards as his father was at the time Chairman of Rothmans International who then were one of the Club’s main sponsors.


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He played first in the Bethungra Park


team with his friends and Australian teammates Peter Haydon and Chris Murphy. One of his best moments in polo came when he reached the final of the Archie David in 1988 with the Prince of Wales’s Windsor Park team. Although they lost to Polo Plus in the final, he was very proud of this achievement especially since in that year there were more than 50 entries in the tournament. Later he formed his own team which he


called Nutcrackers playing in their distinctive blue and white colours. He was a very competitive player who got stuck in, which often ended up with him on the ground, earning him the epithet “Autumn Leaves”. He was particularly proud to play with both his son Matthew, also a long- time member of Guards, and his son-in-law Angus Campbell, a three-goal professional married to his daughter Georgina. Anthony loved his ponies and became well known on the field for his spotty


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