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His parents were Edward John Pratt (1826/7–1897), of the Indian Civil Service, where he worked for the salt revenue service, and Eliza Sara (born 1848), née Millard. Both his parents died when Karloff was young, and he was primarily raised by a half-sister and his elder siblings.
Boris Karloff was born as William Henry Pratt on November 23, 1887, at Forest Hill Road, Camberwell, London, to Edward John Pratt, Jr. and Eliza Sarah Millard. He had eight elder siblings including his brother, Sir John Thomas Pratt, who became a British diplomat.
William Henry Pratt was born on November 23, 1887, in Camberwell, London, England, UK, the son of Edward John Pratt Jr., the Deputy Commissioner of Customs Salt and Opium, Northern Division, Indian Salt Revenue Service, and his third wife, Eliza Sarah Millard.
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His father, Edward John Pratt Jr., was a career diplomat who was seldom at home. Edward Pratt, a domineering Englishman of mixed Indian descent, was often critical of his son.
Edwin John Dove Pratt CMG FRSC (February 4, 1882 – April 26, 1964), who published as E. J. Pratt, was a Canadian poet. Originally from Newfoundland, Pratt lived most of his life in Toronto, Ontario.
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E. J. Pratt (1882 - 1964) Edwin John Pratt believed “rhyme and meter do not make a poem… The real flesh and blood of poetry lies in turns of phrases, vivid images, new and unusual thoughts and manners of expressing them” (Pratt, 1983, 33).
Edwin John Pratt was born in Newfoundland, the son of John Pratt, a Methodist missionary from Yorkshire, and Fanny Knight, a sea-captain’s daughter. Pratt spent his first twenty-three...
