Shouler & Son

An uncertain future for the farming industry in the 1840s, with mechanisation beginning to change old practices, was the climate in which William Shouler, then aged 21, announced that he was setting up business as Auctioneer and Appraiser in Woburn Sands. Three years later he left the area and established himself in his wife's home town of Melton Mowbray.

His great great great grandson Ben Shouler has been a partner since 2008 and today his duties include management of new and established clients as well as auctioneering and valuing of all effects that pass through the firms Auction Room in Melton Mowbray.