May 26, 2012

Tom Wills: charmer and scoundrel

Tom Wills

I’ve just finished reading a great yarn by Greg de Moore on Tom Wills: His Spectacular Rise and Tragic Fall. Thomas Wentworth Wills (1835 – 1880) is described in the book’s subtitle as a “charmer, scoundrel and visionary sportsman”. He was certainly all of those things; a fascinating man, a sporting hero laid to waste [...]

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