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WE are delighted that James Corsan author of 'For Poulton and England' will be attending the Jamboree on Saturday and will blow the whistle for the Ronnie Poulton Memorial Touch Rugby Match,We are thrilled he has agreed to come.
Contents
1) Conquering heroes of 1913 will not be forgotten
The Times March 16 2013
2) Poulton Sisters and their Mother have all received MD degrees from Cambridge. Nov 2012
3) Ned Pennant-Rea and Timothy Poulton are Third Cousins twice over!
4) James Garnett in 2009 at Twickenham to commemerate the 100th
anniversary of Ronnie Poulton playing Rugby for Oxford University
5) Island Honeymoon 1945
6) Rory Poulton writes about his Father Teddie Poulton's early years
7) Prof. Edward Poulton and Family's Archaeological Discoveries (flint tools Priory Bay. 1910- 1914.
8) The Dissenters and the Poulton Family
9) If Ronnie Poulton (Palmer) P 4 had lived-
10) The Family Game of Seeing Rescue
11) Marrying into the Family. Michael Crawley
1) Conquering Heroes of 1913
2) 3 Poulton Sisters and their Mother have all received MD degrees from Cambridge. Nov 2012
Mum and daughter collect their degrees on same day
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| From left, Dr Pippa Oakeshott, Dr Sally Poulton, Dr Gillian Hunt and Prof Jo Poulton: November 2012 |
Like daughter, like mother . . .
A Cambridge-educated medical expert is celebrating being awarded a special postgraduate degree – and so is her 90-year-old mother.
Paediatrician Dr Sally Poulton, 55, received her MD – doctor of medicine – degree at the Senate House on Saturday, in recognition of her research into attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).
And her mum, 90-year-old Dr Gillian Hunt, was at the Cambridge University
Also there were also Dr Hunt’s other two daughters– both of whom have MD degrees too.
The remarkable mother-and-daughter double was described as “a lovely family occasion” by Dr Pippa Oakeshott, 61, Dr Hunt’s eldest daughter, who is married to Lib Dem peer Lord Oakeshott.
She said: “My mother has been involved in a long-term research project into spina bifida, and it’s marvellous that both she and Sally were awarded their degrees on the same day.
“Sally, who studied at Girton College , is a senior lecturer in paediatrics at the University of Sydney
Dr Hunt’s other daughter, Jo Poulton, 57, professor of mitochondrial genetics at Oxford University, travelled from there, and the three sisters and their mother posed for the News before attending the degree ceremony.
Family friend Caroline Page said: “It means that all the women in Gillian’s family are now MDs, her other two daughters, doctors Jo and Pippa, having been awarded them in the past.
“Gillian studied preclinical medicine at Girton during the war – doing the three-year course in two years – at a time when Cambridge
“She continued her clinical studies at West London Hospital
It is believed to be the first time that a mother and daughter who attended the same college have received a higher doctorate at the same university congregation
3)Ned Pennant Rea and Timothy Poulton are Third Cousins Twice over !
Helen P R writes,
Ned’s Paternal Grandfather (Peter Pennant Rea)’s first cousin was Delicia Iremonger who had married his Maternal Grand Mother (Peggy Jay)’s first cousin Teddie Poulton many years before his own Parents married !
So Teddie Poulton’s grand children are third cousins twice over to one of Peggy's grand children Ned Pennant Rea.
Third cousins should share one great great grand parent but Tim and Ned share two!
.
Much of this family history emerged when the Pennant Rea family were on holiday at the Victoria Falls Hotel, Zimbabwe in 1990 and started chatting to a smartly dressed Deputy Manager . His name badge said R Poulton.After much discussion Timothy (below with Father Rory) and Ned were introduced to each other as double third cousins.
4) The 100th Anniversary at Twickenham of Ronnie Poulton's playing at the Varsity Match for Oxford University.
James Garnett,at the 100 year anniversary in 2009 of his great uncle Ronnie Poulton playing for Oxford, with the Presidents of the RFU, and of Oxford and Cambridge Universities at Twickenham
5)Island Honeymoon 1945
Delicia Poulton wrote
Third cousins should share one great great grand parent but Tim and Ned share two!
.
Much of this family history emerged when the Pennant Rea family were on holiday at the Victoria Falls Hotel, Zimbabwe in 1990 and started chatting to a smartly dressed Deputy Manager . His name badge said R Poulton.After much discussion Timothy (below with Father Rory) and Ned were introduced to each other as double third cousins.
4) The 100th Anniversary at Twickenham of Ronnie Poulton's playing at the Varsity Match for Oxford University.
James Garnett,at the 100 year anniversary in 2009 of his great uncle Ronnie Poulton playing for Oxford, with the Presidents of the RFU, and of Oxford and Cambridge Universities at Twickenham
5)Island Honeymoon 1945
Delicia Poulton wrote
On honeymoon with the Garnett cousins
I married Teddie on 1st August, 1945 at the church in Cranley Gardens, London (where I used to go to worship as a child). We had piano music because the organ had been destroyed by a bomb. We paid 10 shillings per voice for the choir. My white taffeta dress cost seven guineas (seven pounds and seven shillings). Then off we went to the Isle of Wight for our honeymoon. Where else could we afford to go to, immediately after the war ?
Of course, the Isle of Wight was where the whole of the Poulton-Garnett tribe went for their holidays. So when we reached Portsmouth Harbour, we were on the ferry for the 45-minute crossing to Ryde Pierhead, and so was the rest of the family-congregation. Very tactfully, the rest of the family kept to the opposite end of the ferry, away from the young married couple… all except Maxwell Garnett. Teddie and I had just opened the sandwiches that my mother-in-law had so thoughtfully organised for the journey, when Uncle Max appeared, sat down beside us, and proceeded to eat most of our sandwiches.
We took rooms in Bembridge, across the harbour from St Helens so that we could see the family house and I dare say that with a telescope from the upstairs bedroom (called ‘Miramar’) they could see us lying on the beach in the sunshine, which lasted right through the two weeks. We had a lovely time, with beautiful weather and long walks, and 11 months later our first child was born. While we were out on the beach, or walking on Brading Down, my mother-in-law Mrs Poulton would cycle over every day from St Helens and leave us some cakes or sandwiches – tactfully supplying the young marrieds with food, without ever violating our privacy
6)Rory Poulton writes about his Father Teddie Poulton's early years
Teddie spent much of his early childhood inLondon Oxford
The Poulton family used to holiday at Sir Edward's house, St Helens Cottage where, every year, they used to meet up with their first cousins, the Gametts, of Horsetone Point. Their Aunt Margaret married Maxwell Garnett - Uncle Max.
7)Prof. Edward Poulton and Family's Archaeological Discoveries (flint tools) in Priory Bay. 1910- 1914.
Priory Bay, Isle of Wight
Donated to Pitt Rivers Musem Oxford
[1910.55.1]: 'Portion of neolithic ground flint axe.'
Keywords: Axe
Class: Weapon / Tool
Process: Flint Stone
Maker: Unknown
English time period: Neolithic 4500BC-2500 BC
Field Collector: Miss J. Poulton probably Janet
When collected: By 1910
Other Owners: Edward Bagnall Poulton
PRM Source: Edward Bagnall Poulton
Acquired: Donated 1910
Primary documentation: Accession Book Entry - 'PROF. E. B. POULTON, F.R.S. University Museum, Oxford. - Portion of neolithic ground flint celt, found by Miss J. Poulton [at Priory Bay, N.E. Isle of Wight].' [Geographical] card catalogue entry - [English archaeology] Isle of Wight - exactly as Accession Book
[1910.55.2 - ?]: 'Large collection of palaeolithic implements and flakes (some very fine).' (unknown number)
Keywords: Tool / Flake
Class: Tool
Process: Flaked
Process: Stone
Maker: Unknown
English time period: Palaeolithic 700,000-10,000 BP
Field Collector: Edward Bagnall Poulton, Emily Poulton, ?Ronald William Poulton later known as Ronald William Poulton-Palmer, Margaret Poulton, Janet Poulton, Helen Kemp, & Margery Moseley.
When collected: By 1910
Other Owners: Edward Bagnall Poulton, Emily Poulton, ?Ronald William Poulton later known as Ronald William Poulton-Palmer, Margaret Poulton, Janet Poulton, Helen Kemp, & Margery Moseley.
PRM Source: Edward Bagnall Poulton
Acquired: Donated 1910 [Two used as exchange material in May 1948 with National Museum of Southern Rhodesia.]
Primary documentation: Accession Book Entry - 'PROF. E. B. POULTON, F.R.S. University Museum, Oxford. - A large collection of palaeolithic implements and flakes (some very fine) collected in Priory Bay, N.E. Isle of Wight. Of these some are quite sharp & unrolled & came from the gravel capping the clay cliff below Nodes Fort, others were picked up on the shore close by & most of these are much rolled & abraded by sea action. Found by Prof & Mrs. Poulton, Mr. R. Poulton, Miss Margaret Poulton, Miss Janet Poulton, Miss Helen Kemp and Miss Margery Moseley.' Additional Accession Book Entry - 'Less two implements sent in exchange to Nat. Mus. of S. Rhodesia, March 1948.' [Geographical] card catalogue entry - [English archaeology] Isle of Wight - exactly as Accession Book Added [Geographical] Card Catalogue Entry - Less two rolled flaked tools sent in exchange to National Museum, S. Rhodesia, March 1948 Exchange [last word in red type]
[1914.57.1]: 'Chelleo-Acheulian flint implement.'
Keywords: Tool
Class: Tool
Process: Flint Stone
Maker: Unknown
English time period: Palaeolithic 700,000-10,000 BP
Field Collector: ?Edward Bagnall Poulton
When collected: By 1914
Other Owners: Edward Bagnall Poulton
PRM Source: Edward Bagnall Poulton
Acquired: Donated 1914
Primary documentation: Accession Book Entry - PROF. E.B. POULTON, F.R.S. - [1 of] 4 Chelleo-Acheulian flint implements from Priory Bay, I[sle] of Wight - added to the series previously given by him. [Geographical] Card Catalogue Entry - [English archaeology] Isle of Wight - England Palaeolithic Hampshire Isle of Wight Priory Bay 4 Chelleo-Acheulian flint implements d.d. Prof E.B. Poulton 1914
[1914.57.2]: 'Chelleo-Acheulian flint implement.'
Keywords: Tool
Class: Tool
Process: Flint Stone
Maker: Unknown
English time period: Palaeolithic 700,000-10,000 BP
Field Collector: ?Edward Bagnall Poulton
When collected: By 1914
Other Owners: Edward Bagnall Poulton
PRM Source: Edward Bagnall Poulton
Acquired: Donated 1914
Primary documentation: Accession Book Entry - PROF. E.B. POULTON, F.R.S. - [1 of] 4 Chelleo-Acheulian flint implements from Priory Bay, I[sle] of Wight - added to the series previously given by him. [Geographical] Card Catalogue Entry - [English archaeology] Isle of Wight - England Palaeolithic Hampshire Isle of Wight Priory Bay 4 Chelleo-Acheulian flint implements d.d. Prof E.B. Poulton 1914
[1914.57.3]: 'Chelleo-Acheulian flint implement.'
Keywords: Tool
Class: Tool
Process: Flint Stone
Maker: Unknown
English time period: Palaeolithic 700,000-10,000 BP
Field Collector: ?Edward Bagnall Poulton
When collected: By 1914
Other Owners: Edward Bagnall Poulton
PRM Source: Edward Bagnall Poulton
Acquired: Donated 1914
Primary documentation: Accession Book Entry - PROF. E.B. POULTON, F.R.S. - [1 of] 4 Chelleo-Acheulian flint implements from Priory Bay, I[sle] of Wight - added to the series previously given by him. [Geographical] Card Catalogue Entry - [English archaeology] Isle of Wight - England Palaeolithic Hampshire Isle of Wight Priory Bay 4 Chelleo-Acheulian flint implements d.d. Prof E.B. Poulton 1914
[1914.57.4]: 'Chelleo-Acheulian flint implement.'
Keywords: Tool
Class: Tool
Process: Flint Stone
Maker: Unknown
English time period: Palaeolithic 700,000-10,000 BP
Field Collector: ?Edward Bagnall Poulton
When collected: By 1914
Other Owners: Edward Bagnall Poulton
PRM Source: Edward Bagnall Poulton
Acquired: Donated 1914
Primary documentation: Accession Book Entry - PROF. E.B. POULTON, F.R.S. - [1 of] 4 Chelleo-Acheulian flint implements from Priory Bay, I[sle] of Wight - added to the series previously given by him. [Geographical] Card Catalogue Entry - [English archaeology] Isle of Wight - England Palaeolithic Hampshire Isle of Wight Priory Bay 4 Chelleo-Acheulian flint implements d.d. Prof E.B. Poulton 1914
8)The Dissenters and the Poulton Family
Olive Maclean, elder sister of our Poulton grandmother Frida
Maclean (P1*) married an army officer called Christopher Packe. She met him
while he was on leave, and was charmed by his wonderful, informative and
interesting letters written from the officers’ mess in Mauritius Mauritius
p.119 London
« The various sects dissenting from the established Church ofEngland
9) If Ronnie Poulton (Palmer) P 4 had lived--
A Future Re-Imagined
1 December 2012
Marigold Joy (P1222), grand-daughter of Ronnie's Nephew -Ronald Poulton (P12) writes-.
6)Rory Poulton writes about his Father Teddie Poulton's early years
Teddie spent much of his early childhood in
The Poulton family used to holiday at Sir Edward's house, St Helens Cottage where, every year, they used to meet up with their first cousins, the Gametts, of Horsetone Point. Their Aunt Margaret married Maxwell Garnett - Uncle Max.
7)Prof. Edward Poulton and Family's Archaeological Discoveries (flint tools) in Priory Bay. 1910- 1914.
Priory Bay, Isle of Wight
Donated to Pitt Rivers Musem Oxford
Latitude: 50.71 / Longitude: -1.1
The English collections at the Pitt Rivers Museum contain the following 6 objects from Priory Bay in Isle of Wight:[1910.55.1]: 'Portion of neolithic ground flint axe.'
Keywords: Axe
Class: Weapon / Tool
Process: Flint Stone
Maker: Unknown
English time period: Neolithic 4500BC-2500 BC
Field Collector: Miss J. Poulton probably Janet
When collected: By 1910
Other Owners: Edward Bagnall Poulton
PRM Source: Edward Bagnall Poulton
Acquired: Donated 1910
Primary documentation: Accession Book Entry - 'PROF. E. B. POULTON, F.R.S. University Museum, Oxford. - Portion of neolithic ground flint celt, found by Miss J. Poulton [at Priory Bay, N.E. Isle of Wight].' [Geographical] card catalogue entry - [English archaeology] Isle of Wight - exactly as Accession Book
[1910.55.2 - ?]: 'Large collection of palaeolithic implements and flakes (some very fine).' (unknown number)
Keywords: Tool / Flake
Class: Tool
Process: Flaked
Process: Stone
Maker: Unknown
English time period: Palaeolithic 700,000-10,000 BP
Field Collector: Edward Bagnall Poulton, Emily Poulton, ?Ronald William Poulton later known as Ronald William Poulton-Palmer, Margaret Poulton, Janet Poulton, Helen Kemp, & Margery Moseley.
When collected: By 1910
Other Owners: Edward Bagnall Poulton, Emily Poulton, ?Ronald William Poulton later known as Ronald William Poulton-Palmer, Margaret Poulton, Janet Poulton, Helen Kemp, & Margery Moseley.
PRM Source: Edward Bagnall Poulton
Acquired: Donated 1910 [Two used as exchange material in May 1948 with National Museum of Southern Rhodesia.]
Primary documentation: Accession Book Entry - 'PROF. E. B. POULTON, F.R.S. University Museum, Oxford. - A large collection of palaeolithic implements and flakes (some very fine) collected in Priory Bay, N.E. Isle of Wight. Of these some are quite sharp & unrolled & came from the gravel capping the clay cliff below Nodes Fort, others were picked up on the shore close by & most of these are much rolled & abraded by sea action. Found by Prof & Mrs. Poulton, Mr. R. Poulton, Miss Margaret Poulton, Miss Janet Poulton, Miss Helen Kemp and Miss Margery Moseley.' Additional Accession Book Entry - 'Less two implements sent in exchange to Nat. Mus. of S. Rhodesia, March 1948.' [Geographical] card catalogue entry - [English archaeology] Isle of Wight - exactly as Accession Book Added [Geographical] Card Catalogue Entry - Less two rolled flaked tools sent in exchange to National Museum, S. Rhodesia, March 1948 Exchange [last word in red type]
[1914.57.1]: 'Chelleo-Acheulian flint implement.'
Keywords: Tool
Class: Tool
Process: Flint Stone
Maker: Unknown
English time period: Palaeolithic 700,000-10,000 BP
Field Collector: ?Edward Bagnall Poulton
When collected: By 1914
Other Owners: Edward Bagnall Poulton
PRM Source: Edward Bagnall Poulton
Acquired: Donated 1914
Primary documentation: Accession Book Entry - PROF. E.B. POULTON, F.R.S. - [1 of] 4 Chelleo-Acheulian flint implements from Priory Bay, I[sle] of Wight - added to the series previously given by him. [Geographical] Card Catalogue Entry - [English archaeology] Isle of Wight - England Palaeolithic Hampshire Isle of Wight Priory Bay 4 Chelleo-Acheulian flint implements d.d. Prof E.B. Poulton 1914
[1914.57.2]: 'Chelleo-Acheulian flint implement.'
Keywords: Tool
Class: Tool
Process: Flint Stone
Maker: Unknown
English time period: Palaeolithic 700,000-10,000 BP
Field Collector: ?Edward Bagnall Poulton
When collected: By 1914
Other Owners: Edward Bagnall Poulton
PRM Source: Edward Bagnall Poulton
Acquired: Donated 1914
Primary documentation: Accession Book Entry - PROF. E.B. POULTON, F.R.S. - [1 of] 4 Chelleo-Acheulian flint implements from Priory Bay, I[sle] of Wight - added to the series previously given by him. [Geographical] Card Catalogue Entry - [English archaeology] Isle of Wight - England Palaeolithic Hampshire Isle of Wight Priory Bay 4 Chelleo-Acheulian flint implements d.d. Prof E.B. Poulton 1914
[1914.57.3]: 'Chelleo-Acheulian flint implement.'
Keywords: Tool
Class: Tool
Process: Flint Stone
Maker: Unknown
English time period: Palaeolithic 700,000-10,000 BP
Field Collector: ?Edward Bagnall Poulton
When collected: By 1914
Other Owners: Edward Bagnall Poulton
PRM Source: Edward Bagnall Poulton
Acquired: Donated 1914
Primary documentation: Accession Book Entry - PROF. E.B. POULTON, F.R.S. - [1 of] 4 Chelleo-Acheulian flint implements from Priory Bay, I[sle] of Wight - added to the series previously given by him. [Geographical] Card Catalogue Entry - [English archaeology] Isle of Wight - England Palaeolithic Hampshire Isle of Wight Priory Bay 4 Chelleo-Acheulian flint implements d.d. Prof E.B. Poulton 1914
[1914.57.4]: 'Chelleo-Acheulian flint implement.'
Keywords: Tool
Class: Tool
Process: Flint Stone
Maker: Unknown
English time period: Palaeolithic 700,000-10,000 BP
Field Collector: ?Edward Bagnall Poulton
When collected: By 1914
Other Owners: Edward Bagnall Poulton
PRM Source: Edward Bagnall Poulton
Acquired: Donated 1914
Primary documentation: Accession Book Entry - PROF. E.B. POULTON, F.R.S. - [1 of] 4 Chelleo-Acheulian flint implements from Priory Bay, I[sle] of Wight - added to the series previously given by him. [Geographical] Card Catalogue Entry - [English archaeology] Isle of Wight - England Palaeolithic Hampshire Isle of Wight Priory Bay 4 Chelleo-Acheulian flint implements d.d. Prof E.B. Poulton 1914
8)The Dissenters and the Poulton Family
Robin Edward Poulton
1 December 2012
Colonel Packe and Aunt Olive had four children. The youngest
was Margi Packe, a schoolteacher who has the misfortune to catch polio when a
child. She was a long-time friend of Penelope. The brother who preceded her was
Michael, and during my childhood I only heard of him as a daffodil grower
living in Alderney, where he died.
It turned out later, that Michael had been a rather exciting
person who had written a famous book about the air drop on Arnhem
It is extremely
learned, very philosophical, written in an old-fashioned style of prose which
is quite pleasing to read, and the book is filled with dry and hilarious,
donnish wit of which the following description of the Dissenters is a good
example.
The Poultons were Congregationalists. The Palmers were
Quakers. So the Dissenters are a significant part of the family’s – as well as England
« The various sects dissenting from the established Church of
« That they could be stubborn, ruthless and uncompromising;
that their religious determinism was capable of
subversive political corollary, the Stuart kings had been made violently
aware and since the Restoration, non-conformists had been officially
discouraged by serious civil disabilities. But the restrictions tended to
strengthen rather than to thin their ranks. Indeed, they even welcomed
persecution, for it was one of their chief notions that virtue must overcome
adversity ; and as they needed a cross to bear in any case, it was considerate
of the government to provide them with one so reasonably light.
« … They worked and
worked, and praised the Lord ; they washed their linen in private and in public
did good deeds. If they sang, it was always hymns or other responsible songs;
if they drank, it was from a closely watched decanter ; if they kissed with
passion, the family sentence was always marriage. On Sundays they did nothing
at all but go to meeting house, where, to relieve the monotony of the day, they
paid a great deal of attention to the preacher, demanding from him not words of
calm morality or advice on scriptural topics, but an inspired peroration, a
violent onslaught which would subdue and ravish their emotions, and provide a
purge for the funds of sensibility stored up in them during the preceding week.
»
This was the creed in which Edward Bagnall Poulton was raised
– together with his best friend, John Viriamu Jones, who was the son of a Welsh
preacher. Their parents were
Congregationalists, who suffered from exactly the persecution complexes Michael
Packe describes in the text above.
JVJ went to school with EBP when they were young, and found
him again in Oxford Balliol
College , Oxford
in 1874 and later went off to found the University
of Wales at Cardiff
On his untimely death at the age of 45, his friend EBP helped
to fund a fine marble statue of Jones seated in the entrance to Cardiff University
Lady Poulton had likewise chafed under the
restrictions of the Quaker creed. Thus our family deserted the Dissenters, and
entered the all-encompassing bosom of the Church of England9) If Ronnie Poulton (Palmer) P 4 had lived--
A Future Re-Imagined
1 December 2012
Marigold Joy (P1222), grand-daughter of Ronnie's Nephew -Ronald Poulton (P12) writes-.
Ronald was killed at Ploegstreet in 1915; but had he lived,
his great grand-niece imagines he would have been even more heroic.
What might have happened, if the sniper had never fired that
bullet in May 1915.
A future re-imagined
Captain R.W.P. Palmer of the Royal Berkshire Regiment (P4 –
but known to everyone else in England as Ronnie Poulton-Palmer, Captain of
England’s 1913 Grand Slam Rugby Team) was never the sort of man who would
arrive home in a wheel chair. Not if he could help it, anyway. He was a hero in
the eyes of a nation before the war and a hero afterwards and forever more.
However in Ronnie’s heart – and for those that really knew him - Ronnie was a
quiet and unassuming man and the stuff of the true hero who would face his
fears and put all men before himself.
And that’s what happened in the Flanders fields. He’d waded
out into the mud to save a dying soldier, and the bottom half of his left leg
was blown off by a previously unexploded shell.
As ever on the sports field, his determination would win out and he
would walk through those double doors of the Oxford drawing room once more, to
stand proudly, even if it now was on all three legs - as two of them were his
wooden crutches – and shake his father’s hand and embrace his mother and
brother and sister – just Teddy and Margaret left now to his parents, for this
terrible war had been cruel to them both at home and abroad.
Oh, how he’d longed for the embrace of his loved ones!
Thoughts of their smiling faces had kept him going through the darker hours in
the field hospital, when the tragic decision to amputate an unsalvageable limb
from one of our greatest sporting heroes was gravely taken.
Unannounced, Ronnie threw back the doors. He was greeted by
embraces, tears of happiness and then such sadness about his leg. His sporting
career clearly over. But he would have none of it – he was too old to be an
international rugby player now anyway – he had far more important things to
focus on and he’d sure as dammit be the best ever pirate at the family
Christmas fancy dress parties. Charades was a favourite game, and he would
out-Charade them all !
So a hero before the war, and a hero afterwards he certainly
was. This was a man who declared that he would just have to strap his leg back
on again and pick up his life from where he left off. Nothing would stop him.
He had a family of doctors (his brother EEP and brother-in-law Charles Symonds)
- surely they could help him strengthen the rest of his body, help him shape up
the best prosthetic for whatever task he had in mind - yes, even if he had to
have a whole cupboard of them so that he could cycle, walk, whatever. As a
young engineer, Ronnie himself was already inventing new limbs in his mind’s
eye, imagining new prosthetic materials. They could help him find the best
solution for the insatiable itch in the missing limb or the burning pain that
would keep him awake in the depths of the night. True to his character, he did not
stop at his own misfortunes.
Ronnie became an ambassador and a champion of those other men
less fortunate than himself. He allied himself with those who were not born
into wealth and opportunity, who were also maimed by that dreadful war, but who
now were unable to take up their previous employment. It was not that he
championed benefits for them, he championed acceptance of them back into the
work place – “The Right To Work”.
This was something he keenly introduced at Huntley and Palmer
– a showcase in so many ways. H&P became a leader in caring for the needs
of war heroes. Ronnie knew these sort of men for who they really were:
something in their core made them feel they were born to work, to provide for
their families and it was essential that Ronnie should help them get back to
this. While they needed to strap back on a new pair of legs, work was the thing
that made them feel real men again - and Ronnie understood that. He knew the
working man from before the war, through his work at Huntley and Palmers and
through his work with the Boys’ Clubs since he was at Rugby School; but even
more so he had come to know them during the war. In the trenches he had lived
beside working men, day after day. They had faced their worst fears together,
found solace in each others’ company. Ronnie wasn’t the sort of officer who
kept himself separate from his men – he’d worked too closely with the boys’
clubs to put himself amongst the elite now – they were his men, his duty of
care, his family and that is just how he treated them. In return the love and loyalty
they gave him was infinite.
This was something that followed him throughout his life. He
had the ability to make everyone feel special, no matter who they were, what
class, what background.
Huntley and Palmers grew under Ronnie’s guidance – it was a
business that was set to expand, but it did in a way that benefitted the
workforce – their welfare was of paramount importance and Huntley and Palmers
became world famous for this. So the family business stayed within the family
for another generation forward, branching out to champion and sponsor all
manner of causes and creations. H&P Biscuits have long since disappeared
inside United Biscuits…. But H&P Prosthetics lives on, while H&P racing
chairs took twenty Olympic Medals in the London 2012 Games. Sport remains the
greatest legacy of Ronnie Poulton.
10 ) The Family Game
of Seeing Rescue
Chris G says
This is a
generational thing. As far as I am concerned we always called it seeing rescue.
The younger mob seem to call it see and rescue
Addie P says
2)The History of
the Game
The Game’s origins probably go back to the hide and seek
game played by Edward and Emily Poulton’s children and grandchildren in St Helens Cottage Garden
It can be played anywhere that has a detached house, hiding
places and an enclosure for the ‘home’.
It has been played round the Cottage every Easter in the early evening after hockey and in the summer holidays by grandchildren and over grown school boys and girls since the 30s, thanks largely to the forbearance of the residents of the Cottage
.Catherine B. adds ‘The need to play in late afternoon was because of Granny’s sacrosanct sleeping time’.
The game appears to have many similarities with an outdoor children’s
game called Cocky Olly but differs because the Seeing Rescue ‘Catcher’ has to circulate
round a building, rather wander anywhere to catch people.
Seeing Rescue Rules
a) One person is appointed He or It to be the 'Catcher'
and everyone else hides. The Catcher is based in the Curly Wall area and that
space is called the Home.
b) The Catcher gives the
players a count to 20 to hide. He/She circulates round the house keeping to the
paving slabs (including the path to the large boat house, down the paved
path to the gate into the field and along the lavender walk to the sun dial). Someone is
caught if the Catcher can see them he/she must shout ‘seen you X’ and must give
the right name. The ‘prisoner’ must then return to the Home (curly wall).
c) Meanwhile the players are hiding behind trees, bushes,
chicken huts, bins etc or peeping round /keeping look out at each corner of the
house ready to dash into hiding when they see him coming.
b) The hen hut was very useful hiding spot with the tiny chicken window a good look out
c) Small people were very useful as they could hide in bushes and free people, but then they could not escape fast enough after the rescue and usually ended up in the prison/home.
d) Small people were also used to sit on shoulders to peep over the bushes and spy.
e) The Catcher could run very fast or go very slowly round the house to mislead every one or suddenly speed up
f) Spies used to be hidden inside the Cottage (against the rules) to warn players when the Catcher was approaching or encourage the players to mount a rescue bid when the Spy saw a chance
-Joshua was always the best... He could see over the wall when on woodshed side to see fishpond. Plus he's the best decoy caller, yelling "ruuuunnn woodshed" whilst running woodshed way, thus causing a cacophony of "keep innnnn wood shed" from the others in the home, which caused such confusion that most came out of hiding.
-The controversial use of the moving tarpaulin
-Hiding behind the pillar by the home, if you're thin and nimble enough
-The Catcher doing the double back 2 directional runs around the house, this catching all the corner runners on their second rounding
-The awesome kamikaze Sas run /roll, using the hill contour as shelter as you approach the home
Martin J. adds
Chris G. adds
-Peter J as theUK Ambassador
in Washington
-Wearing Uncle Stuart's flying suit peering over the top of the old wood shed and the "he" not being able to see who was wearing it.
-Corners
-Looking through the big room window when going round the house in a clockwise direction and catch a large number of people as they come hurtling round the corner by the curly wall.
-I seem to remember an occasion when Martin hid in Uncle Stuart’s flying suit in the loggia under the bench and kept releasing everybody as the he went slowly barking.
11 )Marrying into the Garnett Poulton Family by Michael Crawley
Lots
of them, many tall and stary. Think
achievement, competitiveness, intellectual rigour, old style matriarchy. Seriousness of purpose. Certainly curious about an addition to the
family. If met with, “What are you
doing?” “I’m on my way to the pub” is
the wrong answer. Often it was like
spouting my entire cv in just a minute.
Initially
found this ‘family’ absorbed family rather overwhelming. And all that pro-activity. Expected to join in group tasks like boat
lifting. Much enjoyed the tugs of war
and John’s singalongs on Priory.
Vivid
memories of Priscilla knitting and Rebecca sewing on either side of the drawing
room fireplace, a silver bulldog at both ends of the mantelpiece. “That’s right” or “Is that right” Priscilla
would respond to virtually anything I’d say.
Had some fun with that.
I
am one among many who have benefited hugely from such strong family bonds. What terrific unshowy support we all received
when most needed. The Crawleys remain
incredibly grateful to Garnett/Poultons for being, well, Poulton/Garnetts.
Michael Crawley 27/02/2013
The Weekend's Legacy
1) The Game’s Name
2) The History of the Game
3) The ‘Rules’ of the Game
4) Tricks, Traditions and Cheating in the Game
1)The Game’s Name.
Margaret and Maxwell’s grandchildren call the game Seeing Rescue,
although William calls it Seen Rescue. But there
appears to have been a change over the years with the great grandchildren
(pointed out by Amelia and Adela) calling it See
and Rescue!
Ginny B. thought it was
called it Seaing Rescue.
Peter J says
Draconians (formerDragon School
Draconians (former
It's missing
a bit of our generational stuff. Defo always been see & rescue with our
lot. As in you see people and you rescue people. I'm smugly surprised that you
lot mixed your tenses so badly. Or does the seeing happen in a different part
of the game from when you stage a rescue?
Margaret and
Maxwell’s children probably then transferred the game to Cottage (green roof
house) in the 1930s and it was adapted to be played round the house and to use
the curly wall enclosure as the Home.
It has been played round the Cottage every Easter in the early evening after hockey and in the summer holidays by grandchildren and over grown school boys and girls since the 30s, thanks largely to the forbearance of the residents of the Cottage
.Catherine B. adds ‘The need to play in late afternoon was because of Granny’s sacrosanct sleeping time’.
3)The Rules
of the Game
Cocky Olly is a children's game similar in style to
forty forty. Like forty forty, and unlike other tag games, players in cocky
olly are caught when their name is said, rather than by physical contact.The
game begins by selecting a player to be 'it' and choosing a landmark (such as
car/tree/lamppost) or area to be the base. The player on 'it' stays at base
counting, whilst the non-'it' players run off and hide. The 'it' player then
seeks out the hidden players, and, upon finding them, shouts 'cocky olly I see
[name]' (or 'cocky olly [name]' for short).
The player whose name is said is now caught and returns to base. When the 'it' has caught all non-'it' players, the game is over. However, non-'it' players may rescue caught player from base. This is done by contact and caught players must remain in (or in contact with) the base, before they are saved. Caught players may guide their would-be rescuers to base by shouting out the position of the 'it' player. When the 'it' player is far from the base in one direction, it is safe for rescuers to approach from the other.
The player whose name is said is now caught and returns to base. When the 'it' has caught all non-'it' players, the game is over. However, non-'it' players may rescue caught player from base. This is done by contact and caught players must remain in (or in contact with) the base, before they are saved. Caught players may guide their would-be rescuers to base by shouting out the position of the 'it' player. When the 'it' player is far from the base in one direction, it is safe for rescuers to approach from the other.
d)The Catcher can go either way round the house
but he can’t turn round or change direction and the players don’t know which
way he will go until he is spotted. The Catcher can peep over the Curly Wall
and catch people he sees.
e) The
captured players can be freed if a free player can rush to the home and touch
them, without being caught first by the Catcher. The rescuer only has to touch
one prisoner and the freed prisoner can rescue the rest. Tall people can lower
their hands or smaller children over the edge of the wall to be rescued from
behind the wall where the Catcher can’t see the rescuer. The game is over when
everyone has been captured.
4)Tricks, Traditions and Cheating
a) Martin liked to create a
Trojan horse effect by moving nearer and nearer the Home to rescue prisoners
disguised as a bush or dustbinb) The hen hut was very useful hiding spot with the tiny chicken window a good look out
c) Small people were very useful as they could hide in bushes and free people, but then they could not escape fast enough after the rescue and usually ended up in the prison/home.
d) Small people were also used to sit on shoulders to peep over the bushes and spy.
e) The Catcher could run very fast or go very slowly round the house to mislead every one or suddenly speed up
f) Spies used to be hidden inside the Cottage (against the rules) to warn players when the Catcher was approaching or encourage the players to mount a rescue bid when the Spy saw a chance
Peter J says ‘Good practice is for the prisoners
continuously to call out information about the movement of the he’.
Addie P. adds -Oli Crawley fall off wall
-Controversial removal of bay tree and movement of the
flower beds...
-Core hiding places –
a)Hiding in the bush in the home, which only works early
in the game before the It starts
calling "see you all in the home" on repeat, like in kabuddy.
b) Hiding in the tree-bush just outside the home
c) Corners clearly critical
b) Hiding in the tree-bush just outside the home
c) Corners clearly critical
-Joshua was always the best... He could see over the wall when on woodshed side to see fishpond. Plus he's the best decoy caller, yelling "ruuuunnn woodshed" whilst running woodshed way, thus causing a cacophony of "keep innnnn wood shed" from the others in the home, which caused such confusion that most came out of hiding.
-The controversial use of the moving tarpaulin
-Hiding behind the pillar by the home, if you're thin and nimble enough
-The Catcher doing the double back 2 directional runs around the house, this catching all the corner runners on their second rounding
-The awesome kamikaze Sas run /roll, using the hill contour as shelter as you approach the home
-Peter J as the
-Wearing Uncle Stuart's flying suit peering over the top of the old wood shed and the "he" not being able to see who was wearing it.
-Corners
-Looking through the big room window when going round the house in a clockwise direction and catch a large number of people as they come hurtling round the corner by the curly wall.
-I seem to remember an occasion when Martin hid in Uncle Stuart’s flying suit in the loggia under the bench and kept releasing everybody as the he went slowly barking.
11 )Marrying into the Garnett Poulton Family by Michael Crawley
The Blog
We hope to continue the Blog after the Easter weekend. We will add photos and reports of the weekend. Subsequently family members can add ‘Hatch.Match.Despatch’ news or circulate ‘networking ‘news about their own lives, situations vacant, promotions and events.
If another reunion was ever proposed this Blog might help to arrange it!