Segar Bastard

Bastard was born in Chigwell to Richard Bastard and Josephine Green. His family were working class; his father was a hop merchant by trade. Bastard's family initially ran a merchants shop and drapers in Exeter called Wholesale Linen-Drapers and Hop-Merchants until 1870, when it was dissolved by mutual consent of the family members. A law firm named Segar Bastard & Company was created as a result of Bastard's family ceasing to run the drapers and merchants shop, and Bastard trained and later practised as a solicitor. One of his high-profile clients was Ashanti Goldfields Corporation. Bastard was also on the boards of a number of mining companies; he was listed as a director of Escurial Copper Mines Limited and Tarkwa Main Reef Limited, while also serving as the chairman of Black Eagle Gold Mining Company Limited and Wassan Extended Gold Mines Limited. In June 1884, Bastard married Gertrude Littlewood Garrett in West Ham; they had a daughter named Florence Garrett Bastard. Bastard was noted for gambling; he was also a fan of horse racing and is one of the first football figures known to have owned a race horse. He died aged 67 in 1921 after a heart attack at Epsom railway station in Surrey. In his will, Bastard left £11,000 (approximately £465,600 in 2025) to his wife.