Chard Road

Mount Tamar House Special School at King's Tamerton stands on the site of the old mount Tamar House stands on the site of the old Mount Tamar House, which from the late 1840s through to the 1920s was home to various members of the Chard family - the most famous odf whom was undoubtedly John Chard who was born in 1847.

Chard's parents, William and Jane had moved here from their house on Boxhill (on the site now occupied by the Kitto Centre) when John was just a year or two old. thirty years later, in January 1879, Lieutenant John Chard, as he was, and his fellow officer Lieutenant Gonville Bromhead, led a motley band of 80 or so men, many of them sick and wounded, in one of the most courageous stands of the Zulu Wars. Some 4,000 natives they kept at bay in a memorable encounter that was, almost 100 years later, recreated for the silver screen in the film Zulu.

As welll as the naming of this road Chard is remembered in a plaque mounted on a wall of the Kitto Centre.

19 August 1995