Lieutenant-Colonel, Royal Engineers
Born: 27 March 1901
Died: 31 August 1941
Age at Death: 40
Died on active service, 31 August 1941
House Prefect 1918
School Prefect 1919
Head of House 1919
1st XV 1918-1920
Edmund was born on 27 March 1901 to Sir Edmund Nuttall, 1st Baronet, and his wife Ethel (née Lillington). The Nuttalls were a rich family of industrialists, drawing wealth and prestige from a construction engineering business founded in Manchester in 1865 by an ancestor. At the College he was Head of House.
Edmund junior succeeded to the baronetcy and the chairmanship on the death of his father in 1923. However, he decided not to forge a career in the engineering workshops of his company but in the military, in – where else? – the Royal Engineers. He took part in the 1940 Battle for France and was mentioned in despatches, but was severely wounded at Dunkirk, where the British forces escaped during the fall of France in 1940, and later died of his wounds. He is buried in Lowesby (All Saints) Churchyard in Leicestershire.