PONYLINES
ONE TO REMEMBER
CLIVE BENNETT
Well known to all who have played at Cowdray Park Polo Club over the past 20 years, Dr Matt Bradstock-Smith died on 7 January, at the age of 50, after a brave four-year battle against cancer. Matt was born in 1965 in Singapore, where his father was serving in the RAF. The family later made West Sussex their home and he won a scholarship to Christ’s Hospital School, where both his academic and musical talents blossomed. In 1988, he qualified from St George’s Hospital Medical School in London, where he met a clever fellow student with a well-developed sense of humour: Harry Hill. Harry and Matt wrote comedy shows that they took to the Edinburgh Fringe, and Matt appeared as Harry’s son in several TV series. In 1998, while working as a GP and pursuing his passion for polo, he met Jane Fisher, staff supervisor at Cowdray. They married in 2000 and he became a devoted stepfather to her children, Kate, Lucy, John and Henry, then starting out on their polo careers. He will be greatly missed. Liz Higgins
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