Patteson Womersley Nickalls

Patteson Womersley Nickalls (born in January 1876 or 1877, died 10 September 1946) was an English polo player who competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics for Great Britain and won the gold medal with the Roehampton team. The sources read for this entry disagree on his year of birth, and he was born in Essex, the son of the stockbroker Sir Patteson Nickalls. He was educated at Rugby School and New College, Oxford, where he played in the Varsity polo match in 1895, 1896 and 1897, served in the Second Boer War with the Durham Light Infantry, including the Relief of Ladysmith, and joined the London Stock Exchange. He played for England in the 1902 International Polo Cup, captained the English team against America in 1909, and was awarded the Distinguished Service Order in 1918.