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Richard Horatio Blair (born 14 May 1944) is a British trustee and patron who is the only (adopted) son of English author George Orwell. Life and works. Blair was adopted by Eileen and Eric Blair (George Orwell), and after their deaths, lived with Avril Dunn (née Blair, Orwell's sister, his legal guardian) and Bill Dunn.
Mar 22, 2017 · Orwell and Richard lived on remote Hebridean island Jura for much of 1945 to 1950, at Barnhill, a farmhouse only reached by boat or several hours’ walk.
Pretty grim, you might think. But you would be wrong. In June 1944, Orwell and his wife Eileen adopted a three-week-old boy whom they named Richard Horatio Blair (Eric Blair being Orwell's real name). Now a retired engineer living happily in an immaculate house in a picture-book Warwickshire village, Blair has never publicised the fact that he ...
Mar 25, 2009 · Orwell and Son. By George Packer. March 25, 2009. The last years of Orwell’s life are generally thought to have been heroically grim: the privations of World War II in London, his wife Eileen ...
In June 1944, Orwell and Eileen adopted a three-week-old boy they named Richard Horatio. According to Richard, Orwell was a wonderful father who gave him devoted, if rather rugged, attention and a great degree of freedom. After Orwell's death Richard went to live with Orwell's sister and her husband.
Jul 6, 2016 · Gavin Freeguard, trustee of the Orwell Youth Prize, interviews Richard Blair, George Orwell's son.
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- The Orwell Foundation
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Richard Horatio Blair, the son of the British writer Eric Arthur Blair--better known by his pen-name George Orwell--joined Jonathon Van Maren to talk about h...
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