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At nineteen he was apprenticed to Edmund Hambley, maltster, of Liskeard, who five years later, in his official capacity as Constable of the Hundred of Liskeard, was to be publicly defied and twice knocked down by his insubordinate apprentice. A trifling affair in itself, this village fracas was to have a lasting effect upon the career of Thomas Borrow.
They made a determined effort to arrest the leader of the Liskeard contingent, and were promptly knocked down by him. At that moment Mr Edmund Hambley, a much-respected maltster and the headborough of Liskeard, was attracted to the spot. Seeing in the person of the outrageous leader of the battle one of his own apprentices, he stepped forward and threatened him with arrest.
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