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Henry Wickham

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  • 1871 – moved with his extended family to Brazil where they failed miserably at growing crops, and a number died from fever. But while there got seeds for rubber trees, and sent them back to England, where they did very well in Brit colonies. Failed in Australia to start a tobacco plantation. Failed in British Honduras to grow bananas. Went to Papua New Guinea where he achieved modest success as a farmer, but his wife couldn’t stand the isolation and left him for Bermuda. When he returned to England in 1910 he was a national hero for his work on rubber, was knighted by the king, and given an annuity by British Rubber Growers Association.

  • — Henry Wickham
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His breakthrough came in 1979 when he grew a 438-pound pumpkin, declared the largest in the world. Mr. Dill won the world championship four years in a row, but not without sacrifice. He recalled driving more than 1,000 miles to the U.S. with a pumpkin in the back of his pickup truck, spending days away from his family and farm, to compete for a $100 prize. On his way home, prize claimed, he seriously considered whether he should see a psychiatrist, says his son, Danny Dill.

—Howard Dill, pumpkin champion
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