| William Marshall Cazalet | |
| Birth Date: | 8 July 1865 |
| Birth Place: | St. Petersburg, Russia |
| Death Date: | 22 October 1932 (aged 67) |
| Death Place: | Tonbridge, Kent, England |
| Nationality: | British |
| Education: | Christ Church, Oxford |
| Occupation: | Socialite |
| Known For: | represented Great Britain at the 1908 Olympic Games in jeu de paume |
| Spouse: | Maud Lucia Heron-Maxwell |
| Children: | 4, including Victor Cazalet, Thelma Cazalet-Keir, and Peter Cazalet |
| Parents: | Edward Cazalet Elizabeth Sutherland Marshall |
| Relatives: | Sir John Robert Heron Heron-Maxwell, 7th Baronet (father-in-law) |
William Marshall Cazalet (8 July 1865 – 22 October 1932) was a wealthy British landowner who represented Great Britain at the 1908 Olympic Games in jeu de paume (real tennis).[1]
Cazalet was born in Saint Petersburg, Russia, on 8 July 1865.[2] He was the son of Edward Cazalet, merchant and industrialist, and his wife, Elizabeth Sutherland Marshall (d. 1888), daughter and heir of William Marshall, doctor and Danish consul in Edinburgh.[3] Cazalet graduated from Christ Church, Oxford, in 1889. At Oxford, he won a Blue in real tennis (jeu de paume) in 1886, 1887 and 1889, and won the singles in 1889.[2] His father had a real tennis court built for him at Fairlawne, the family home in Shipbourne, Kent.[3]
Cazalet was a wealthy landowner, with friends including Rudyard Kipling.[2] He served as a Lieutenant in the West Kent Yeomanry Cavalry, and held appointments by the Crown as High Sheriff of Kent, a Justice of the Peace and Deputy Lieutenant of Kent.[2]
Cazalet represented Great Britain at the 1908 Olympic Games in jeu de paume.[2] [4]
Cazalet was painted by John Singer Sargent in 1902, with his horse and wearing a hunting jacket.[5] [6] The painting was sold at Christie's, New York in May 2007, with an estimate of US$2–3 million,[7] and realised $1.832 million.[8] In 2015, Barbra Streisand donated Sargent's 1900–01 group portrait of his wife and two children, Mrs. Cazalet and Children Edward and Victor, to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.[9]
He married Maud Lucia Heron-Maxwell (known as Molly; d. 1952),[10] daughter of Sir John Robert Heron Heron-Maxwell, 7th Baronet.[3] [11]
Cazalet's eldest son Edward, born 1894, was killed in action in France in 1916.[10] His second son, Victor Cazalet, and his daughter Thelma Cazalet-Keir, both became Members of Parliament, and his third son was the racehorse trainer Peter Cazalet.[2]
Cazalet died on 22 October 1932 in Tonbridge, Kent, England.[2] [12]