The Government's intention was to create at least one high-speed route to the south coast, while the guardians of the forest, the Verderers, resisted any further development.
An image on Purbeck marble found at Steeple Langford in 1857, a portrait of a man wearing a long robe, with a horn hanging from his left shoulder, may be of Alan de Langford, Verderer of Grovely Wood at the end of the 13th century.
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Hobart was the Official Verderer of the New Forest and sat as Member of Parliament (MP) for New Forest from 1906 until 1910.
He was appointed verderer and deputy warden of the Forest of Dean from 1801 to his death, Sheriff of Gloucester city in 1807 and Mayor of Gloucester in 1813.