Patteson Womersley Nickalls

Olympic medal record
Men's Polo
Gold	1908 London	Team competition

Patteson Womersley Nickalls (23 January 1877 – 10 September 1946), was a British polo player who competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics.

Biography

Nickalls was born on 23 January 1877 at North Weald, Essex, the son of Sir Patteson Nickalls, a stockbroker, and his wife Florence.^[1] He was educated at Rugby School.^[2] There he was in the cricket XI from 1892 to 1894^[3] and in the rugby XV in 1893. He went to New College, Oxford where he graduated BA in 1897. In 1900, he was gazetted to the Durham Light Infantry and served in the Second Anglo-Boer War. He took part in the Relief of Ladysmith and the Battle of Colenso.^[2] He retired from the army in 1901^[4] and became a member of the London Stock Exchange.^[2]

Nickalls played polo for England in the 1902 International Polo Cup matches.^[5] He was a member of the winning teams in the Roehampton Trophy in 1904 and 1905. In 1905 he played for the Roehampton Club and in 1908 the Roehampton team represented Great Britain at the 1908 Summer Olympics in London and won the Gold Medal. He played for England in the Weschester Cup again in 1909.^[5]

Nickalls served on the Western Front in World War I in the Northamptonshire Yeomanry. He wrote an account of fox hunting behind the lines in 1916.^[6] He remained a major in the Territorial Reserve, having been awarded the DSO, until 1926.^[7]

Nickalls died on 10 September 1946 at the age of 69.

External links

• Olympic Players profile

References

1. ^ British Census 1881 RG11 0857/105 p22
2. ^ ^{a b c} Rugby School Register
3. ^ Patteson Nickalls at Cricket Archive
4. ^ London Gazette August 2 1901
5. ^ ^{a b} http://www.westchestercup.org/archives.htm
6. ^ The Hounds of War: A Veterans Day for Hunting Soldiers
7. ^ London Gazette 5 February 1926

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Name	Nickalls, Patteson
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Date of birth	January 23, 1877
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Date of death	September 10, 1946
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