The Hand and Spear was built by Lord King, Baron of Ockham, as a summer house for his family between 1830 and 1833. In 1833 lord King died and his land in Weybridge passed to his second son, Peter Locke King who brought his widowed mother to live in Woburn House.(Now St. Georges College.)
When the railway was built and open, Peter Locke King realised that his summer house could be a business asset and turned it into a hotel.
He called it the Hand and Spear from his family crest which shows a hand grasping a spear.

source: Elmbridge Museum.