Frank MacKey

Medal record
Men's polo
Representing a Mixed team
Olympic Games

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]

References

^ Redmond, Patrick R. (2015-03-07). The Irish and the Making of American Sport, 1835-1920. McFarland. p. 332. ISBN 978-1-4766-0584-5.
^ ^a ^b ^c "Frank MacKey". Olympedia. Retrieved 27 December 2020.
^ Leigh, Dorian (1980). The Girl Who Had Everything. Doubleday. p. 94. ISBN 9780385143318.
^ ^a ^b Bianchi, Martín (16 November 2017). "La increíble historia del falso secuestro de la millonaria marquesa de Moratalla". Vanity Fair España (in Spanish). Retrieved 3 November 2025.

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[1] Redmond, Patrick R. (2015-03-07). The Irish and the Making of American Sport, 1835-1920. McFarland. p. 332. ISBN 978-1-4766-0584-5.

[Olympedia-2] "Frank MacKey". Olympedia. Retrieved 27 December 2020.

[3] Leigh, Dorian (1980). The Girl Who Had Everything. Doubleday. p. 94. ISBN 9780385143318.

[VanityFairEspana-4] Bianchi, Martín (16 November 2017). "La increíble historia del falso secuestro de la millonaria marquesa de Moratalla". Vanity Fair España (in Spanish). Retrieved 3 November 2025.

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