The Wallace wager was a STITCH-UP and Hampden was right to be furious

ok so everyone trots out 1870, Alfred Russel Wallace, the big famous naturalist, "proved" the earth round on the same Bedford canal and won £500 off John Hampden. Globers love this one. What they conveniently leave out: Wallace was a trained surveyor. Hampden was a vicar's son who'd just read Rowbo……