Frederick Melland
- December 7, 1990
- 86 years
About Frederick Melland
Frederick Melland, 86, British lacrosse and Olympic ice hockey player (1928).
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|Frederick Neville Shinwell Melland (3 April 1904 in Manchester – 7 December 1990, Swansea) was a British lacrosse and ice hockey player who competed in the 1928 Winter Olympics.
Biography
Melland attended Winchester College and Trinity College, Oxford, where he played lacrosse. He toured the US in 1926 and captained the England lacrosse team in 1932. Additionally, he was part of the British national ice hockey team that finished fourth in the 1928 Olympics. He also played tennis, making the mixed doubles at Wimbledon in 1936 and the semi-finals of the men's doubles in the Northern Tournament in 1940.
Melland was later a lacrosse referee. He was the nephew of Prime Minister H. H. Asquith.
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