This celebrated genealogist and publisher, who started life as a solicitor, is included because he was involved in early attempts to collect and publish the records of family history in Hampshire that are now more readily available online from FamilySearch, FindMyPast, Ancestry and the like. For example, between 1899 and 1912 he master-edited 14 volumes…

The son of a clergyman, Charles was born in Fulham. It is not known where he undertook his primary and secondary education (to use modern terminology), but he secured a place at Cambridge to study mathematics, garduating with a first class degree in 1905. From 1906 to 1911 he was a fellow of Pembroke College…

See also: Guido (PIggott), Cecily Margaret (Peggy)

Born in Dunston, near Gateshead, Rutherford was the son of a railway worker. He was educated in the Newcastle area and attended the University of Durham, from where he graduated with an MA in history. Postgraduate study was undertaken at the University of Michigan, with the subject of his PhD thesis being South Africa’s federal government in the late nineteenth century.

Hampshire can lay claim, in a small way, to some of the archaeological work of General Pitt Rivers, the country’s first Inspector of Ancient Monuments.  In the mid 1890s his investigation of sites on Cranborne Chase spilled over into the county and Martin Down and Bokerley Dyke are included in his impressively produced excavation volumes. …

The daughter of George Washington Sandell, head of a local shipping firm of Sandell & Son, Elsie was born in Southampton and spent much of her life in the town. At the time of the compilation of the 1939 Register, however, she was residing at a guest house in Axminster, Devon, with her father and…

Born in London, Pledge undertook his higher education at Oxford University studying classics, history and French during the second half of the 1890s. Around the turn of the twentieth century and while he was in Scotland, Pledge’s path crossed with that of (Otto) Ernest Philippi. The latter had been born in Germany acquiring British Citizenship…

Plunket Greene was born in Dublin, son of Richard Jonas Greene, barrister, and his wife Louisa Lillias (neé Plunket) a writer of children’s stories. He was educated at Clifton College, Bristol and set aside a career in law on account of a severe rugby football injury. With his evident musicality, however, and the development of…

E H Lane Poole was from a distinguished Oxford family. His father, Professor Reginald Lane Poole (1857–1939) was a historian and Keeper of the Archives at Oxford University, while his brother Austin (1889–1963) was a medievalist, and President of St John’s College.

As Porter explains at the begining of one of his autobiographical publications ‘the Porter family had been settled in Rugeley, in Staffordshire, more than a hundred years’ before he was born there. Leaving school in 1852, his father, a tailor, was keen for John to enter the legal profession. However, his son had other ideas…