Budleigh Notables: H
Sir Henry Rider HAGGARD KBE (1856-1925), author, pictured above in about 1905, visited Budleigh twice. He stayed at ‘Thornsett’, 11b Marine Parade from October 1916 to March 1917, and also at the Rosemullion Hotel in October 1917.
* He is most famous as an author for the novel King Solomon's Mines, first published in 1885.
* It took him some time to appreciate Budleigh judging by his diary entries. Without work to do, he wrote on 12 March 1917, ‘I should not have cared for it, as it is “quiet” to the verge of exasperation’. But by October he is writing: ‘The quiet and repose of such a place as this charming Budleigh Salterton is particularly welcome in this year and month of grace, particularly when one's daughters are here.’
https://budleighpastandpresent.blogspot.com/2015/01/elegy-for-rosemullion.html (23 Jan 2015)
Henry Robert
Hallett (1891-1918)
* He was born
in Thorn Mill, East Budleigh. His parents were farmer John Hallett and Fanny
Jane Hallett, née
Lawrence. They are recorded on the Commonwealth War Graves Commission website
as living at 9, Staples Buildings, Exmouth.
* He lived in
East Budleigh until 1911 when he is recorded as a baker in Bournemouth.
* His wife was
Myra Ellen Hallett, née Utting. They married in 1917 in Norfolk.
* Their two children
were born in Devon.
* Henry Robert Hallett (1891-1918) died while serving with the Durham Light Infantry in Northern France during WW1. His name appears on Budleigh Salterton War Memorial although there is no evidence that he lived in the town.
* He was buried
in Hermonville Military Cemetery, near Reims, pictured above. Image credit:
* You can read
about him at http://www.devonremembers.co.uk/content/the-honoured/hallett-henry-robert
https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/323304/henry-robert-hallett/
Ernest Frank Harding (1919-1942)
* His parents were Herman Henry Harding
and Ellen Emily Harding, described as ‘of Budleigh Salterton’ in Commonwealth
War Graves Commission records.
* A farm labourer, Herman Harding, aged
20 and born at Venn Ottery, is listed in the 1881 census as living at Rockbeare
Hill.
* Ernest Frank Harding (1919-1942) was
killed while serving with No.3 Commando of the Devonshire Regiment during the
Dieppe Raid of WW2.
* His grave, pictured above, is in the
Dieppe Canadian War Cemetery.
* You can
read about him at https://budleighpastandpresent.blogspot.com/2020/11/ww2-7513-never-forgotten-he-was-one-of.html
Herbert John Harding (1894-1917)
* He was born in Stepney, London, the
son of Herbert Henry Harding and Ellen Harding née Smith.
* His parents moved after 1911 to Bird’s
Eye View, Otterview Terrace on Granary Lane.
* Parish records list them as buried in
St Peter’s Burial Ground, Moor Lane.
Parents not in BS Burial ground.
* Herbert John Harding (1894-1917) died
in Belgium while serving with the Royal Field Artillery during WW1.
* He is buried in Railway Dugouts Burial Ground (Transport Farm), near Ypres in Belgium,
pictured above.
* You can read about him at http://www.devonremembers.co.uk/content/the-honoured/harding-herbert-john
John
Stephen Harris (1922-1943)
* He was the son of John Harris and Violet
Thompson Harris, of ‘Raleigh’ in Budleigh Salterton.
* He was killed while serving with the Royal
Air Force Volunteer Reserve during WW2.
* He is remembered on Budleigh Salterton
War Memorial, pictured above.
* You can read about him at https://budleighpastandpresent.blogspot.com/2021/03/ww2-75-4-august-1943-thanks-to-canadian.html
Marley Joan HARRIS, aka Marley Spearman (1928-2011), golfer, lived at ‘White Lodge’, Coastguard Road. Pictured above at Royal Birkdale Golf Club in 1962, photo courtesy of Sudbury Golf Club.
* Trained as a dancer, she discovered her talent for golf after visiting Harrods in London where golf lessons were being offered.
* She won the British Ladies Amateur in 1961 and 1962 and the English Women's Amateur Championship in 1964.
* Her British-born nephew, Mitchell Spearman (1963- ), based in the USA, is one of Golf Magazine's Top 100 Teaching Pros, and has worked with leading PGA Tour pros including Nick Faldo and Greg Norman.
https://budleighpastandpresent.blogspot.com/2013/02/people-from-past-5-marley-harris-1928.html (21 Feb 2013)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marley_Spearman
Sarah HARRISON (b.1946) Novelist. Brought up at ‘Harts Delyte’, Castle Lane, then at ‘Cheriton’ next to ‘The Octagon’ on Fore Street.
* Her first novel to be published was The Flowers of the Field (1980) which became a bestseller. She has written over 30 novels and children’s books.
* She held a writers’ workshop at the 2011 Budleigh Salterton Literary Festival.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Harrison_(novelist)
Percival HART (1891-1937). Owner of Hart’s Buses (Budleigh Salterton). He lived at 3, Clinton Terrace
* He started the bus company in 1927 after working in the bakery industry.
* The bus service competed successfully with the local railway; a return fare from East Budleigh to Exmouth in 1927 cost 10 old pennies.
* He was buried alongside his wife, Winifred Audrey Hart, née Freeman (1894-1980) , in St Peter’s Burial Ground, Moor Lane.
* Hart’s bus services are the principal subject of a booklet The Budleigh Bus, published by The West Country Historic Omnibus and Transport Trust, and pictured above. It covers the districts of Exmouth, Woodbury, East Budleigh, Colaton Raleigh and Otterton in the period 1919-1959.
Winifred Audrey HART, née Freeman (1894-1980) Owner of Hart’s Buses (Budleigh Salterton). She lived at 3, Clinton Terrace.
* She took over the management of Hart’s Buses in 1937 and Hart’s Bus Tours on the death of her husband, Percival Hart (1891-1937).
* The company ran a fleet of eight vehicles, two of them pictured above. Image credit: Geoff Cunliffe.
* A former passenger recalled the idiosyncratic service on the town circular route. ‘There seemed to be no official stops, passengers getting on or off wherever they pleased,’ he wrote. ‘They paid either when getting on or off, whichever suited them best.’
* The business was sold to the Devon General Bus Company in 1959.
* Her memories of Budleigh Salterton
during WW1 were recorded in 1980 in a document at Fairlynch Museum.
* She was buried alongside her husband, Percival Hart (1891-1937), in St Peter’s Burial Ground, Moor Lane.
https://www.oxford-chiltern-bus-page.co.uk/jottings%20190711%20part%202.html
David
Hubert HARVEY-WILLIAMS (1926-1945)
Above: The headstone on David’s grave in Hamburg’s Ohlsdorf Cemetery. It bears
the inscription THANK YOU, DARLING, FOR THOSE NINETEEN BLISSFULLY
HAPPY YEARS. GOD BLESS YOU
* His parents were Doris Harvey-Williams (dates unknown) and David Hubert Harvey-Williams (dates unknown).
* He joined
the Household Cavalry Regiment as a Lieutenant.
* He
was killed in action on 19 April 1945, aged 19.
* His
grave is in Hamburg’s Ohlendorf Cemetery, pictured above.
* An
announcement that he had been awarded the Military Cross was published in the
London Gazette of 7 July 1945.
* His
parents are recorded by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission as living in
Budleigh; his mother lived on Clinton Terrace.
* His
name does not appear on Budleigh War Memorial.
* You
can read about him at https://budleighpastandpresent.blogspot.com/2023/12/ww2-75-19-april-1945-missing-name.html
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Margaret HATCHARD-SMITH MBE, née Thompson (1892-1971). Wife of Colonel William H. Hatchard-Smith TD FRIBA. She lived at ‘Watch Hill’, 3 Cricketfield Lane.
* Her father, American millionaire Blake Thompson, commissioned his future son-in-law, Colonel William H. Hatchard-Smith TD FRIBA (1887-1987), to build ‘Watch Hill’ in 1929.
* A memorial window in St Peter’s Church, pictured above, commemorates the hospitality that she and her husband gave to servicemen from the Commonwealth and the USA during WW2. © Imperial War Museum: Stephen MacDonald-Brown (WMR-25206)
* She was awarded the MBE in the June 1961 Birthday Honours ‘For services rendered under the auspices of the Dominions Fellowship Trust in connection with hospitality to visitors from overseas’.
* The Hatchard-Smiths’ guests at ‘Watch Hill’ included Robert James Lee Hawke AC GCL (1929-2019), the 23rd prime minister of Australia.
* Their guest books for ‘Watch Hill’ can be seen at Fairlynch Museum.
https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/25206
Colonel William H. HATCHARD-SMITH TD FRIBA (1887-1987), architect. Husband of Margaret Hatchard-Smith MBE, née Thompson (1892-1971). He lived at Watch Hill, 3 Cricketfield Lane.
* A blue plaque at the Public Hall commemorates him and his achievement in designing over 50 private residences in Budleigh Salterton.
* The many large residences in the Budleigh Salterton area designed by him are today marketed as ‘Hatchard-Smith’ houses. They are instantly recognisable with their red and white decoration and their front doors set within brick arches. They are said to be sought after and appreciated by their owners for their elegance and comfort, their sturdy construction and their attention to practical detail.
* The photo shows him celebrating his 100th birthday at St Cecilia’s Nursing Home on Northview Road. The others in the picture are Mr Waddington, Manager of the local Lloyd’s Bank, paying tribute to the bank’s oldest client and Mrs Eileen Brookes, Chairman of the Town Council, presenting flowers from the Council.
https://budleighpastandpresent.blogspot.com/2012/08/a-home-that-william-hatchard-smith.html (4 Aug 2012)
https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/25206
Ethel HENTY (d.1941). She lived at ‘Shandford’, Station Road.
* ‘Shandford’ was rented by the Bennett family in 1939. One of the Bennett daughters, Margaret ‘Meg’ Ruth Peacocke, née Bennett (b.1930), had vivid memories of the ‘rambling and dilapidated’ house, as recorded in Anthony Meredith’s biography of her brother Sir Richard Rodney Bennett (1936-2012), pictured above. ‘The house was thrilling! I used to sneak about, taking everything in, and I went up to the attic once and it was full of assegais, masks and marvellous red-leather volumes full of paintings of butterflies and insects.’
* Equally vivid were Meg Peacock’s memories of Ethel Henty herself: ‘Miss Henty was an amazing personality, really quite mad. Among her many eccentricities, for example, was a terror of getting bats in her wispy grey hair.’
* According to Anthony Meredith’s biography Ethel Henty is described as the elderly daughter of the novelist and war correspondent George Alfred Henty (1832-1902). However G.A. Henty’s two daughters, Maud Elizabeth and Ethel Mary, have been recorded as dying of tuberculosis, aged respectively 18 in 1879 and 19 in 1882.
* Her grave is in St Peter’s Burial Ground, Moor Lane.
http://www.online-literature.com/ga-henty/
Sir Hubert von HERKOMER (1849-1914), Anglo-German artist, died at ‘Matford’ (now called ‘Possil House’) Marine Parade, while staying in Budleigh.
* His illustrations of impoverished workers of the countryside were used in the Wessex novels of Thomas Hardy (1840-1928).
* His dream house, ‘Lululaund’ on Melbourne Road, Bushey, Hertfordshire has been described as ‘an Arts and Crafts fairlytale home'. Sadly, it was demolished by Bushey Urban District Coucil in 1939, reputedly due to anti-German feeling.
* Bushey is now twinned with the German town of Landsberg am Lech in Bavaria, where there is a Herkomer Museum. The Hertfordshire town now has a Herkomer Road, and Bushey Museum itself has a Herkomer Room.
https://budleighpastandpresent.blogspot.com/2018/12/from-bushey-to-budleigh-life-and-death.html (8 Dec 2018)
Andrew Stuart HIBBERD MBE (1893-1983), broadcaster, lived at ‘Westfield House’ – now called ‘Hibberd House’ - on Westfield Road.
* His best known announcements for BBC Radio were of the death of King George V in 1936, and of Adolf Hitler in 1945.
* The title of his autobiography, This is London (1950), is an echo of the words which began his famous radio broadcasts during WW2.
* ‘People raised their hats to him as he passed in the street when I went to see him in Devon in the 1970s,’ recalled the broadcaster and journalist Roger George Clark (1943- )
* He is buried alongside his wife Alice May Hibberd (1892-1977) in St Peter's Burial Ground, Moor Lane.
https://budleighpastandpresent.blogspot.com/2011/11/andrew-stuart-hibberd-mbe-1893-1983.html (20 Nov 2011)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuart_Hibberd
Henry Vincent ‘Harry’ HOOKER (1872-1944). Fish merchant, of 56 High Street (1902) and 14 High Street (1939). Pictured is a shop front on Budleigh High Street, decorated with tiles from Poole Pottery in Dorset.
* Hooker Close is named after him.
* He served for a time as Chairman of Budleigh Salterton Urban District Council.
* A former employee and Budleigh resident recalled that at one time 250 boats were fishing for Hookers, from Portland Bill to Penance; 100 tons of live crabs were taken in one week.
* Most of the crabs went to Billingsgate and to the canning factory in Boston, Lincolnshire.
* He was buried alongside his wife, Mary Anne Hooker, in St Peter’s Burial Ground, Moor Lane.
https://www.pooleimages.co.uk/carters-tiles
https://www.exmouthjournal.co.uk/news/20345559.budleigh-man-reminisces-life-town-bygone-years/
Edward 'Ted' James HUGHES OM OBE FRSL (1930-1998). Former Poet Laureate. Photo by Jane Bown.
* 'He wrote in one of the daily papers about how he found it funny buying his Sunday newspaper from the fish shop. He would telephone dad before he came to have his paper put back so it wasn’t sold.'
Priscilla HULL, née Carter (1920-2013), co-founder of Fairlynch Museum, daughter of George Edward Lovelace Carter (1886-1974), lived at Abele Tree House, 9 Fore Street. She is pictured wearing her insignia as President of Budleigh Salterton Chamber of Commerce. Photo courtesy of Ray Ambrose ©2008 Randa Creative.
* In addition to co-founding Fairlynch Museum she was Chairman of Budleigh Salterton Urban District Council, Chairman and President of Budleigh Salterton Chamber of Commerce, a Devon County Councillor and a JP, sitting as a magistrate for over 25 years.
https://budleighpastandpresent.blogspot.com/2013/08/she-was-really-mrs-budleigh-salterton.html (31 Aug 2013)
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