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Captain '''Charles Thomas Irvine "Pat" Roark''' (1895–1939) was an English [[polo]] player. He held a ten goal [[Polo handicap|handicap]] at the peak of his career.<ref>{{cite news |title=Lacey's Polo Team Here For U.S. Open |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1931/08/15/archives/laceys-polo-team-here-for-us-open-argentine-four-headed-by-10goal.html?sq=lacey%2520polo&scp=2&st=cse |quote=With the arrival yesterday of Hurlingham, the second of the Argentine polo teams entered in our open championship at the Meadow Brook Club at Westbury next month, and of Captain C.T.I. Roark, Great Britain's only ten-goal player, who is to play with the Hurricanes ... |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |date=August 15, 1931 |access-date=2015-03-06 |first=Robert F. |last=Kelley}}</ref><br />
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==Biography==<br />
===Early life===<br />
He was born in [[Ireland]] on 2 May 1895.<ref>Quarterly Army List March 1922</ref> His father was Thomas Irvine Roark of Wexford.<br />
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He was commissioned into the [[Royal Irish Rifles]] in October 1914, transferred to the Household Cavalry in June 1917 and served in [[France]] in 1917 with the Life Guards, after which he transferred to the Indian Army and the 34th P.A.V.O. Poona Horse (later 17th Q.V.O. Cavalry) in May 1918.<ref>The Poona Horse, Volume 2, p 222</ref> He retired a Captain in July 1922.<ref>London Gazette 22 July 1922</ref><br />
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===Career===<br />
He played for England in the [[International Polo Cup]] in 1927<ref>{{cite magazine| url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,736822,00.html | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101125015946/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,736822,00.html | url-status=dead | archive-date=November 25, 2010 | magazine=Time | title=Sport: From Hurlingham | date=25 July 1927}}</ref> and 1930. He won the [[US Open Polo Championship]] with his team, the Hurricanes.<ref>{{cite magazine| url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,737901,00.html | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101027200604/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,737901,00.html | url-status=dead | archive-date=October 27, 2010 | magazine=Time | title=Sport: Open Polo | date=16 September 1929}}</ref> in 1926, 1929 and 1930.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.sportpolo.com/History/Champions.htm |title=US Open Champions |access-date=2010-10-26 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110218190908/http://www.sportpolo.com/History/Champions.htm |archive-date=2011-02-18 }}</ref> He also captained the victorious [[Hurricanes (polo)]] team in the [[Roehampton Trophy|Roehampton Cup]] in 1928 and 1931.<br />
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===Personal life===<br />
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He first married Grace Muriel Campbell (the sister of a brother officer in the Poona Horse, Captain Wentworth Edward Dallas Campbell). They were married in St Paul's Church, Umballa, Punjab, India in 1919 and they had a son (b. 1920). She divorced him in 1929 on the grounds of his adultery.<br />
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He married again in 1930.<br />
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Lastly in 1938 he married Patsy Hostetter Smith in California and they had one son. She remarried in 1942 to Walter D. K. Gibson, Jr.<br />
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He died on 18 February 1939 from injuries incurred in a fall during a practice match at [[Pasadena, California]]. He had been due to play a third [[International Polo Cup]] for England that year.<br />
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[[Category:British Life Guards officers]]<br />
[[Category:English polo players]]<br />
[[Category:1895 births]]<br />
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[[Category:International Polo Cup]]<br />
[[Category:Polo deaths]]<br />
[[Category:Roehampton Trophy]]<br />
[[Category:Royal Ulster Rifles officers]]<br />
[[Category:British Indian Army officers]]<br />
[[Category:Indian Army personnel of World War I]]</div>Bot