KILLED IN LONDON STREET
FORMER NEW ZEALANDER I OWNED WINNER OF NATIONAL DOMINION GOLF CHAMPION By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright Rec. 75 pun. London, Jan. 29. A former New Zealander, Mr. Spencer H. Gollan, was run over . by. a motor bus in Oxford Street to-day and killed. Gollan, who was bom at Mangatarata, Auckland, New Zealand, was educated in New Zealand, in Switzerland and at Cambridge and was a very prominent athlete, having won events in rowing, sculling, running, swimming, boxing, golf (including two New Zealand amateur championships) and other sports. He was also successful as a racehorse owner and won the Grand National Steeples with the New Zealand horse Moifaa. Mr. Gollan spent his early life in New Zealand, and on his settling in England imported racehorses from the colonies. He won the City and Suburban with Australian Star in 1901 and the Grand National with Moifaa in 1904. Interested in golf, he won the Calcutta Cup in 1920 and the Jubilee Vase in 1925. He has one son, Mr. Donald H. L. Gollan, Manor House, Peppard. Mr. Gollan married Miss Esme Gordon in 1923.
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Taranaki Daily News, 30 January 1934, Page 7
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