Sir Patteson Nickalls (10 December 1836 – 4 October 1910) was a British

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and

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politician and was president of the Polo and Riding Pony Society.

Biography

Nickalls was born in

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in 1836 as a British subject, the son of Patteson Nickalls (1798–1869) and Arabella Chalk (1799–1893). He was the younger brother of

Tom Nickalls Tom Nickalls (1828–1899) was a stockjobber on the stock exchange and one of the founding members of London Rowing Club. He was known as the "king of the American railroad market" after making his fortune in American railway shares. Biography N ...

. He became a stockbroker in London. At the 1885 general election he stood unsuccessfully for parliament as a Liberal at

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. He was knighted at Osborne House on 11 August 1893. At the 1900 general election he stood unsuccessfully for parliament as a Liberal at

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. In 1901, he addressed a pro-Boer meeting at Maidstone which was broken up by his opponents, and which caused unpopularity for Nickalls at the Stock Exchange. Nickalls lived at Chislehurst and died in 1910 at the age of 73.Office for Population and Censuses BMD Indices

Family

Nickalls married Florence Womersley (1847–1896) in London in 1867. They had five daughters and three sons: *Ethel Patteson Nickalls (1867–1948) *Winifred Nickalls, who married Major-General

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(1869−1921) *Hylda Patteson Nickalls (1871–1947) *Lilian Patteson Nickalls (1873–1950), who married in 1902 Captain William Randal Ponsonby (1876–1919), and later Major Arthur Trevor-Boothe (1869–1946) *Sybil Patteson Nickalls (1874–1938), who married Hon Henry Gilbert Lakin (1875–1964) *Major

Patteson Womersley Nickalls Patteson Womersley Nickalls (23 January 1877 – 10 September 1946), was an English polo player who competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics for Great Britain. Biography Nickalls was born on 23 January 1877 at North Weald, Essex, the son ...

(1877–1946) *Colonel

Cecil Patteson Nickalls Cecil Patteson Nickalls, D.S.O. (14 October 1877 – 7 April 1925) was a Colonel in the Royal Field Artillery. He was a champion polo player, and a champion rugby player, who took his own life with a gun on 7 April 1925. Early life He was bo ...

(1877–1925) * Morres Nickalls The sons were all leading polo players who were educated at

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and

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and played polo for Oxford University.

References

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