Thomas Fane, 8th Earl of Westmorland was an English politician and peer. He was an ancestor of the writer George Orwell.
Thomas Fane, 8th Earl of Westmorland by Joshua Reynolds
Wormsley Park, Buckinghamshire
Brympton D'Evercy House, Somerset
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Eric Arthur Blair was an English novelist, poet, essayist, journalist, and critic who wrote under the pen name of George Orwell. His work is characterised by lucid prose, social criticism, opposition
Thomas Fane, 8th Earl of Westmorland
…Thomas Fane, 8th Earl of Westmorland (March 1701 – 25 November 1771) was an English politician and peer. He was an ancestor of the writer George Orwell. Thomas Fane was the second son of Henry Fane of Brympton d'Evercy in Somerset and Anne Scrope, sister and coheir of John Scrope. Anne and John were…
Orwell in 1943
Orwell's birthplace in Motihari, Bihar, India
The Blair family home at Shiplake, Oxfordshire
Blair's time at St Cyprian's School inspired his essay "Such, Such Were the Joys".