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He was born on 14 October 1877 in Kent, England to Sir Patteson Nickalls.
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In the 1890s he played cricket. He scored 109 at Lord"s Cricket Ground against Marlborough in rugby in 1894. He played on the English team against Ireland in 1905 and 1911.
He served as a captain in the Royal Field Artillery in World War I.
Nickalls committed suicide with a gun on 7 April 1925 in Rugby, England.
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He was a champion polo player, and a champion rugby player, who took his own life with a gun on 7 April 1925. He was on the British team that won the International Polo Cup at the Hurlingham Club in 1902 with his brother Patteson Womersley Nickalls, Frederick Maitland Freake, Walter Selby Buckmaster, George Arthur Miller and Charles Darley Miller.
