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Eric Arthur Blair was born on 25 June 1903 toBritish parents[4] in Motihari, Bengal Presidency, British India. There,Blair's father, Richard Walmesley Blair, worked for the Opium Department of theCivil Service. His mother, Ida Mabel Blair (born Limouzin), brought him toEngland at the age of one. He did not see his father again until 1907, whenRichard visited England for three months before leaving again. Eric had anolder sister named Marjorie, and a younger sister named Avril. He would later describehis family's background as "lower-upper-middle class".

At the age of six, Blair was sent to a smallAnglican parish school in Henley-on-Thames, which his sister had attendedbefore him. He never wrote of his recollections of it, but he must haveimpressed the teachers very favourably, for two years later, he was recommendedto the headmaster of one of the most successful preparatory schools in Englandat the time: St Cyprian's School, in Eastbourne, Sussex. Blair attended StCyprian's on a scholarship that allowed his parents to pay only half of theusual fees. Many years later, he would recall his time at St Cyprian's withbiting resentment in the essay "Such, Such Were the Joys". However,in his time at St. Cyprian's, the young Blair successfully earned scholarshipsto both Wellington and Eton.