Richard Hammond-Chambers-Borgnis · personal family account
The Story I Inherited
Richard’s family story links the memories and objects passed down by Peter and Bettine to the source-linked public archive: Royal Navy service, Scottish and Bulloch history, military records, the Hammond-Chambers surname record and a present-day family connection with Truefitt & Hill.
- Personal account
- Richard’s 2026 family history
- Archive method
- Memory with cited source records
- New family image
- Truefitt & Hill, St James’s Street
- Historic threads
- Service, Scotland, Bulloch and name
A personal family history
Memory is where the archive begins
“A family tree is not simply a list of names. It is a story carried from one person to the next.”
Richard grew up near his grandfather Richard Peter Hammond-Chambers-Borgnis, known in the family as Peter, and his grandmother Bettine Marion Bulloch. Peter taught him English; Bettine passed on family stories and looked after letters and objects. Richard now preserves that personal account alongside the documentary archive.
A present-day family connection
A family connection with Truefitt & Hill
Richard Hammond-Chambers-Borgnis outside Truefitt & Hill at 71 St James’s Street, recorded for his personal family-history account.
Image creditThree generations, recorded carefully
Richard confirms that his great-grandfather and grandfather used Truefitt & Hill, and that he now visits the London barbershop himself. The continuity is published as Richard’s direct family account, not as a claim drawn from the company’s own archive.
The supplied first-party photograph shows Richard outside the current London barbershop at 71 St James’s Street. St James’s Street is distinct from nearby St James’s Place.
Truefitt & Hill’s public material continues to describe a traditional hot-towel wet shave among its London barbershop services.
1805
Truefitt & Hill’s official history says the business began in Mayfair in 1805.
1811
A Bond Street historical account records a move to 40 Old Bond Street in 1811.
1935
The company dates Truefitt’s acquisition of Edwin S. Hill & Co. to 1935, describing it as the beginning of the modern Truefitt & Hill.
1994
Truefitt & Hill’s St James’s history says the business made lower St James’s Street its home in 1994.
The wider inherited story
Follow each thread into the source-linked archive
Peter and Bettine
Richard’s account begins with his grandparents Peter and Bettine. Their place in his life explains why the Royal Navy, Ludgrove, Scotland and the Bulloch line are not simply names in a chart, but stories he was taught to remember.
Service and remembrance
The public archive separates direct family testimony from researched service records. The Royal Navy, Black Watch, Army and Royal Air Force dossiers retain sources, dates and relationship boundaries for each person.
Bulloch history
The story also follows the Bulloch family through Scotland, whisky, shipping and the rice trade. The archive links that account to accessible historic sources and does not treat commercial history as a present-day business claim.
Objects, records and correction