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"So Eric's grandfather, though a godson and cousin of the Earl of Westmorland, was under the disagreeable obligation of having, as that last child, to earn his living. After one year only at Pembroke College, Cambridge, Eric Blair's grandfather left for the Empire, being ordained a deacon in the Church of England in Calcutta in 1839 and a priest in Tasmania in 1843 - very much the period of Cobbett's gibe that the Empire was a system of out-door relief for the indigent sons of the British aristocracy. There is a family tradition that he stopped off at the Cape on his way home to England on leave, got to know a family called Hare and actually became engaged to one of the older sisters. Returning from leave, he stopped off intending to marry the girl but found that she had already married someone else. 'So he said,' related Eric's sister Avril, 'Oh well, if Emily's married it doesn't matter - I'll have Fanny', and Fanny at that time was 15. I believe they played with dolls after her marriage.'
In 1854 Eric's grandfather returned to England to become Vicar of Milborne St. Andrew in Dorset, probably the last aristocratic patronage that his branch of the family was to enjoy."
-- George Orwell: A Life by Bernard Crick
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