Captain Geoffrey Stanley Phipps-Hornby (15 Dec 1856 – 9 November 1927) was a British Army officer and polo player.
[6] He was promoted to Lieutenant in 1878[7] and fought in the Second Anglo-Afghan War, being awarded the Afghanistan Medal with the clasp for Ali Masjid.
On retiring from the Army, he became joint owner and manager of the Compton Stud, breeding thoroughbreds and hunters, at Sandley House, near Gillingham in Dorset.
[14] He later lived in Somerton Erleigh in Somerset[15] and, in addition to horses, bred Guernsey cattle[16] and Dorking chickens.
He died in 1927 and is buried in the family plot in St Mary's Church, Compton, West Sussex.