Harry Lott
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Bishop of Winchester
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Tom Parker
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.
William Lashly
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.
William John Clay
William John Clay was the son of Alfred and Ethel Grace Clay of Chidden Farm Cottages, Hambledon, and worked locally at Scotland Farm before entering the army. Like many young men of the village his civilian life was rooted in agricultural work, but he joined one of the oldest and most prestigious infantry regiments in the British Army, the Coldstream Guards.
Edward Alfred Doughty
Edward Alfred Doughty was born in Hambledon on 1st May 1922, the younger son of Edward and Sarah Doughty of The Stores in the High Street, the village shop run by the family. He grew up in the centre of village life alongside his older brother Leonard, both belonging to a generation whose adulthood was shaped entirely by the Second World War.
Leonard George Doughty
Leonard George Doughty was born in Hambledon on 6th September 1913, the elder son of Edward and Sarah Doughty of The Stores in the High Street, the village shop run by the family. He grew up at the centre of village life and by 1939 was working as a grocery salesman while also serving locally in the Royal Observer Corps alongside his father, helping to track and identify aircraft during the early years of the war.