
83 - J.R.R Tolkien
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The Life and Times of Hilary Arthur Riel Tolkien
Hilary Arthur Riel Tolkien and he was born in 1894 so they're like only two years apart. Now when he was three he went to England with his mother and brother on what was intended to just be like a family visit. His father died in South Africa of he got very sick and he passed away before he could join them in the UK. The couple had left England when Arthur was promoted to the head of the Bloom Fontaine office of the British bank which he was working for at the time.
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