The Guv’nor, as he was known locally was a larger-than-life character whose farming skills were matched by his entrepreneurship. Technically not a Hambledon resident he actually owned numerous farms in the Parish or close to it such as Wallops Wood, West End Farm and Hoe Cross Farm.
At the turn of 19thC the South Pole might be seen as the equivalent of the moon in recent times: it was a wilderness area that tested the resources of explorers to the limit of endurance. Captain Robert Falcon Scott was immortalised in legend as one of the greatest Antarctic explorers but tragically he died on the return leg of his expedition to the South Pole in 1912. One of Hambledon’s most feted heroes accompanied Captain Scott on two of his polar expeditions.
