Ronald Poulton, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Ronald Poulton

English rugby union footballer

Date of Birth: 12-Sep-1889

Place of Birth: Headington, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 05-May-1915

Profession: rugby union player

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Ronald 'Ronnie' William Poulton (later sometimes Poulton-Palmer) (12 September 1889 – 5 May 1915) was an English rugby union footballer, who captained England.
He was killed in the First World War. Born in north Oxford, he was the son of Emily Palmer and her husband, the zoologist Sir Edward Bagnall Poulton.
He was educated at the Dragon School, Rugby School, and Balliol College, Oxford. Poulton played for Balliol College, Oxford University RFC, Harlequins and Liverpool F.C.
Poulton is one of three men to score a hat-trick of tries in The Varsity Match – he scored five, still the individual record for the fixture, in 1909.
He captained England during the 1913–14 unbeaten season (now what would be called a 'Grand Slam'), scoring four tries against France in 1914, in the last test match prior to the outbreak of World War I.
Poulton was renowned for his elusiveness and glamorous style of play – "the very mention of swerving sends one's thoughts to the late Ronald Poulton, the swerver par excellence ...
swerving and Poulton are almost synonymous terms".