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Christened Ronald Poulton, he was one of the first to study Engineering at Oxford (Balliol) and then captained of the England Rugby Football XV in 1914. He was heir to the Huntley and Palmer biscuit business (adopting the second surname, Palmer, when his uncle, George Palmer, made him his heir): he was killed by a sniper. His mother, father and 3 of his 4 siblings, including his youngest sister, Janet, who died aged 26 in a road accident in 1919, are buried near the memorial.