{{Short description|British polo player}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox person | name =Vivian Noverre Lockett | image =File:Vivian Noverre Lockett (1914).png | image_size = | caption = Lockett in 1914 | birth_name = | birth_date = {{Birth date|1880|7|18|df=y}} | birth_place =New Brighton, England | death_date = {{Death date and age|1962|5|30|1880|7|18|df=y}} | death_place =Norwich, England | death_cause = | resting_place = | resting_place_coordinates = | nationality = | other_names = | known_for =Polo champion | education = | employer = | occupation = | title = | height = | term = | predecessor = | successor = | party = | boards = | spouse = | partner = | children = | parents = | relatives = | signature = | website = | footnotes = }} {{MedalTop}} {{MedalSport | Men's Polo}} {{MedalGold| 1920 Antwerp|polo}} {{MedalBottom}} [[Image:Polo 5497262170 eb57fe8c5e o.jpg|thumb|Vivian Noverre Lockett, Frederick W. Barrett, Henry Archdale Tomkinson, Johnny Traill, and Leslie Cheape, the team captain, arriving with the RMS ''Carmania'' on 1 June 1914 to play in the International Polo Cup that will be held at the Meadowbrook Polo Club ]]

'''Vivian Noverre Lockett''' (18 July 1880 &ndash; 30 May 1962) <!--Vyvyan --> was a colonel in the British army, and a 10 goal handicap player.<ref>{{cite book |author= Horace A. Laffaye |author-link= Horace A. Laffaye |title=The Evolution of Polo|date= 12 September 2009|page=64 |publisher= McFarland |quote=The first 10-goalers were ... Vyvyan (known as Vivian) Noverre Lockett, 17th Lancers, and Capt. Ralph Gerald Ritson, Inniskilling Dragoons. Capt. | url= https://books.google.com/books?id=9i-bgOjaVysC&q=%22Ralph+Gerald+Ritson%22&pg=PA64 |isbn= 9780786454150}}</ref> He won a gold medal for the United Kingdom at the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp.<ref name=sr>{{cite web|url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/lo/vivian-lockett-1.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418040021/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/lo/vivian-lockett-1.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=2020-04-18|title=Vivian Lockett|publisher=sports-reference.com}}</ref>

==Biography== He was born on 18 July 1880 in New Brighton, Cheshire (now Merseyside). He attended Wellington, Trinity College, Cambridge,<ref>{{acad|id=LKT899VN|name=Vivian Noverre Lockett }}</ref> and Sandhurst. Upon graduating from Sandhurst, he joined the Royal Field Artillery before moving to the 17th Lancers, and in 1927 succeeded his fellow Olympian Tim Melville as Commanding Officer. He retired from the army in 1933 but was recalled in 1940 as commander of the Cavalry Training Centre in Edinburgh.<ref name=sr/> He married Violet Coleman in 1915 and had three children. He died in Norwich on 30 May 1962.

==Polo career== Lockett competed in the International Polo Cup in five matches between 1913 and 1921, and their 1914 victory was England's last until 1997.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.westchestercup.org/history.htm|title=History|publisher=Westchester Cup|access-date=2010-10-03|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110728173848/http://www.westchestercup.org/history.htm|archive-date=2011-07-28|url-status=dead}}</ref> He was part of the team that won the army's inter-regimental tournament in India in both 1913 and 1914. When polo recommenced after the war, he was part of the team that won the inter-regimental championship every year between 1920 and 1930, except in 1927. Despite all this, he surprisingly failed to win a polo Blue whilst at Cambridge.

He represented the United Kingdom in Polo at the 1920 Summer Olympics with Teignmouth Melville, Frederick W. Barrett and John Wodehouse, 3rd Earl of Kimberley.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/17980 |title=Vivian Lockett |work=Olympedia |access-date=27 August 2021}}</ref> They defeated Spain in the final to win the gold medal.<ref>{{cite web | title=Olympic Medal Winners | publisher=International Olympic Committee |url=http://www.olympic.org/uk/athletes/results/search_r_uk.asp |quote=Teignmouth Melville, Frederick W. Barrett, Vivian Noverre Lockett; gold medal; polo}}</ref>

==References== {{Reflist}} ==External links== {{Commons category}} *{{olympics.com|vivian-noverre-lockett}} *{{Team GB}}

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