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.¹² He also was a businessman, founding Household Finance Corp (HSBC Finance) in 1878.²

After a long illness, he shot himself at 74² while terminally ill and left to his much younger widow, Olga Leighton (aged 34), his enormous fortune³ ($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.
"Frank MacKey". Olympedia. Retrieved 27 December 2020.
Leigh, Dorian (1980). The Girl Who Had Everything. Doubleday. p. 94. ISBN 9780385143318.
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.

[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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