Borrow's mother, Ann (1772-1858), was the daughter of Samuel Parfrement, a tenant farmer on the outskirts of East Dereham in Norfolk. The Borrows had two children. John Thomas, born in 1800 or 1801, and George Henry, who said he was born on 5 July 1803 in East Dereham. John Borrow, whose date of birth is uncertain because its registration has yet to be found, played only a small part in the life of his famous brother; he briefly held a commission in the West Norfolk Militia, studied art in Norwich, London, and Paris, and then emigrated to Mexico to work for a number of mining companies, dying there in 1832. Because the West Norfolk Militia was constantly on the move between 1803 and 1816, Borrow to the age of thirteen had little formal education: indeed it amounted to no more than a few months at a school in Huddersfield, a year at Edinburgh High School, and a short spell of less than a year at a Protestant academy in Clonmel, Ireland. When the war was over and his parents had settled in Norwich, Borrow attended Norwich School for three years beginning in 1816, after which he was articled for five years to Simpson and Rackham, a well-established firm of solicitors in Norwich.
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