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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> Arthur Edward James Collins was born in India on 18 August 1885 the son of a judge in the Indian Civil Service. By the time he became world famous at the age of thirteen years and ten months he was an orphan who had arrived in September 1897 as a twelve-year-old boarder in one of Clifton College’s two junior boarding houses. Now called Poole’s House in honour of its first housemaster the place was then known as Clark’s House after George H. Clark who was in charge from 1897 to 1905. A handsome Victorian villa it stands at the corner of Guthrie Road and Northcote Road and it looks across at the Rackets Court of Clifton College and the forbidding walls of Clifton Zoo. A glimpse can also be caught of the green grass of Clifton College Close only a few steps away across Guthrie Road the site where fame awaited Arthur Collins. It was not an ancient school that had been chosen by the guardians of this orphan boy who themselves lived in the West Country at Tavistock. Clifton College had opened as recently as 1862 but so great was the genius and the reputation of its first Headmaster John Percival that in 1879 the year he laid down his office there were 680 boys at Clifton. (LL)