ROBIN HARROD is the great-great-grandson of Charles Harrod, the founder of Harrods, and has researched the history of his extraordinary family for twenty-five years, with assistance from the Harrods archives.
In 1836, Charles Henry Harrod found himself in a prison hulk awaiting transportation to Tasmania for seven years' hard labour. He had been convicted at the Old Bailey of receiving stolen goods, and this should have been the beginning of the end for his fledgling business and his...
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