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CHARLES ANNESLEY HAMOND. 
was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge. From 
very early days he began to show keen interest in field natural 
history and botany, which remained his principal hobby during 
the remainder of his life, and afforded him so many added 
pleasures on the various expeditions he was wont to make. 
One of his earliest recollections was being carried up a ladder 
by the old gardener to look into a wood pigeon’s nest in his 
grandmother’s (Lady Buxton’s) garden at Northrepps Hall. 
His mother used to complain that when, as a little boy, he was 
sent out riding he would persist in keeping close to the hedges 
looking for caterpillars, nests, etc., and pay no attention what- 
ever to the pony. 
In the early seventies, long before Blakeney and Cley had 
become the happy hunting-ground of naturalists and collectors, 
he would spend a great part of his holidays on the “ muds ” 
with an old gunner, Jimmy Brett. It was here that he and 
one of his cousins picked up a human skull, which the 
authorities at the British Museum identified as, probably, that 
of a Saxon, who had evidently met with a violent death, as the 
top of the skull was deeply gashed. 
All his life Charles Hamond was devoted to the sea, and 
when, after leaving Cambridge, he decided to take a voyage 
round the world, he naturally preferred to travel in sailing 
ships rather than in steam, when he had the choice, albeit the 
former often “ carried deck cargoes which would have broken 
Plimsoll’s heart.” He would lend a hand in working the ship, 
and never shirked going aloft in bad weather. From this long 
voyage he returned home with many treasures, but with 
scarcely a rag to his back. 
He was a keen fisherman, and visited Norway for salmon 
fishing on some twenty different occasions. To one so generally 
interested in Natural History, Norway offered many further 
attractions, and during the intervals of fishing he would climb 
every mountain within reach, eager to come across some new 
flower, rare bird, or interesting geological specimen. 
After the death, in 1887, of Mr. Hugh Rump, of Wells, the 
then owner, Charles Hamond bought his 24-ton yacht, the 
