Bunster Hovendon: Brewers & Skippers

Thomas Hovendon spent his early years in shipping in Australia where he skippered boats and skipped out on debts that would have been worth millions today. His final activities in shipping were described, by the Chief Justice of NSW Sir Alfred Stephen, as the "machinations of a very wily person". He earned the unenviable nickname of "Bolter" Hovendon. Thomas fled to Tahiti and he reappeared about 30 years later in the real estate business in California. In America he became a very astute bu...