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Richard Walmesley Blair (1857 - 1939)

Richard Walmesley Blair
Born in Milborne, Dorset, Englandmap
Ancestors ancestors
[sibling(s) unknown]
Husband of — married 1896 in Tetha, Bihar, Indiamap
Descendants descendants
Died at age 82 in Suffolk, England, United Kingdommap
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Biography

Richard Walmesley Blair, worked in the Opium Department of the Indian Civil Service. Children:

  1. September 17, 1898 Birth of Marjorie Frances Blair. Bengal, Clinton, Michigan, USA
  2. June 25, 1903 Birth of Eric Arthur Blair (aka George Orwell)

Motihari, India

  1. April 6, 1908 Birth of Avril Blair. Henley On Thames, Oxfordshire, , England

"Thus his [Thomas Blair] son Richard had to fend for himself from the age of 18. He chose 'the Service' -- as the alien administration of the huge Indian sub-continent called itself -- and not the Church, but without public school or university advantages (one of twelve children, he had been educated at home for economy), he could not get into a favored or fashionable branch of the Service, nor did he rise particularly fast in the humble Opium Department to judge by those postings and gradings. He retired on his pension with no family inheiritance beyond some monogrammed silver and a few pieces of furniture."

---George Orwell: A Life by Bernard Crick

Sources

Ancestry.com. England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1995 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010.

Original data: Principal Probate Registry. Calendar of the Grants of Probate and Letters of Administration made in the Probate Registries of the High Court of Justice in England. London, England © Crown copyright.





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