Percy O'Reilly
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Captain Percy Philip O'Reilly (27 July 1870 – 3 July 1942) of Colamber Westmeath was an Irish polo player who competed at the 1908 Summer Olympics. Together with John Paul McCann, John Hardress Lloyd and Auston Rotheram, he was a member of the Ireland team that won a silver medal.[1][2] The Ireland team was part of the Great Britain Olympic team.[3] In 1911 he was an 8-goal handicap player. He was the only son of Philip O'Reilly and Anna Maria Nugent, the daughter of Sir Percy Nugent.
Captain Percy O'Reilly married Alice Eleanor Boyd-Rochfort of Middleton Park on 18 January 1900, she was the sister of Captain Sir Cecil Boyd-Rochfort royal horse trainer and daughter of Major Rochfort Hamilton Boyd-Rochfort.[4]
He was made High Sheriff of Westmeath in 1919.[4]
Captain Percy O'Reilly and Alice Eleanor Boyd-Rochfort had three sons and three daughters.[5] Born in 1909 their son Captain Charles Valentine O'Reilly was awarded a Military Cross for his courage and determination in an action whilst crossing the Wietze river in the village of Reiningen in April 1945.[6] Their youngest daughter Viola born in 1907, married General Sir Miles Dempsey, commander of the British Second Army during the D-Day landings and invasion of Normandy.[7]
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- 1870 births
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- 19th-century Irish people
- High sheriffs of County Westmeath
- Members of the Ireland polo team at the 1908 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 1908 Summer Olympics
- Olympic silver medallists for Great Britain
- Olympic medalists in polo
- Equestrians from County Westmeath