ONE of the great names of Stowe rugby is PRH Hastings – Peter Robin Hood – who after the war morphed into Peter Hastings-Bass, below, an outstanding horse trainer who revived the famous Highclere stables. This he was able to do only when his childless uncle and godfather Sir William Bass – the brewing magnate – left his estate to Hastings on the proviso that the Bass name be added to his surname.
As Peter Hastings he ranks a close second to Gadney at Stowe in rugby although his love of horse racing was allconsuming after he won a wartime Blue at Oxford and served with the Welsh guards. The expected England cap never materialised.