“HOBSON’S CHOICE’
|IJ! . . - > j '■'■■■ ' ' ■ F“~" "*"i~ Three hundred'years ago' there died a whose.riaine is perpetuated in a well-known phrase (writes ’Mr I A. J. Pawley ”in the “Daily i Telegraph.’) Thomas Hobson succeeded his 1 father as the official carrier to the University of Cambridge which’ licensed persons to cari-y letters before and after the introduction of the 'post office system. He carried passengers goods and letters between Cambridge' affd 'the ißull Inn, Bishopfegate Street, Tmndofl'.f' 3 --‘'“' 'Hobson 'alstf'/i’fiade* to provide' fidiilA boats),- 1 ""bi'itlle' >ana whip, and 1 requested the Tni'bFto take a horse for himself, but it had to be tne one next the stable door. If was any demur, he declared, in a manner : whichvpiQhibited ffuffhpr f argument, that it was the horse next door or none at all. AVhen the animal was taken 'the'Otlifers were MoVed - tip, and so each worked in rotation. The University scholars , coined . 'the i phrase, “Hobson’s choice,” and iti,remains to this day, although Hobson died in 1630, Milton wrote bis epitaph.
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Hokitika Guardian, 12 May 1930, Page 8
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