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George Austen (1731 – 21 January 1805) was a cleric of the Church of England, rector of Deane and Steventon in Hampshire. He is known as the father of Jane Austen.
He died at 4 a.m., January 17, 1838 (Slothouber, “What a Dreadful Day” 36). By then, James Austen had been dead for twenty years; whether William Digweed visited George in his stead is unknown. The rest of the Austen siblings were elderly and scattered.
Visit Jane Austen's House - the Hampshire cottage at which Jane Austen lived and penned her novels, including the timeless Pride and Prejudice. A brief history of Jane Austen's life, from her birth in Steventon to her death in Winchester, via Bath, Southampton and Chawton.
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And so the light brigade charged in the wrong direction into the valley of death. Within twenty minutes the tragedy had been enacted and over 260 men had been killed, wounded, or taken prisoner. Even more crucially for the brigade's effectiveness, 475 horses were lost.