Richard Blair (patron)
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Richard Horatio Blair is a British trustee and patron who is the adopted son of English author George Orwell.
Blair in 2021
George Orwell press photo
Eileen Blair
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Eileen Maud Blair was a British poet and psychologist. She was the first wife of Eric Arthur Blair, commonly known as the English author George Orwell. During the Spanish Civil War in 1937, she volunt
Richard Blair (patron)
…Richard Horatio Blair (born 14 May 1944) is a British trustee and patron who is the adopted son of English author George Orwell. Blair was adopted by Eileen and Eric Blair (George Orwell), and was their only child. After their deaths, he lived with Avril Dunn (née Blair, Orwell's sister, his legal guardian…
George Orwell’s residence at 77 Parliament Hill, Hampstead
No 2, Kit's Lane, Wallington, Hertfordshire, where the Blairs lived from 1936 to 1940
The Blairs with members of the ILP Contingent on the Aragon Front outside Huesca, 13 March 1937
Senate House, London, where Blair worked at the Ministry of Information, was the model for the Ministry of Truth in Nineteen Eighty-Four.