Monarch Notes, January 1st, 1963
Monarch Notes 01-01-1963 Life And Background Early Life: Henry Fielding was born in 1707 at Sharpham Park in Somersetshire, and spent his boyhood on a farm at East Stour in Dorsetshire. His father, Edmund Fielding, was an army officer who later rose to the rank of General; his mother, the daughter of Sir Henry Gould, died when Fielding was eleven. For the next few years he attended Eton, where he accumulated an impressive knowledge of the classics (his father, meanwhile, having remarried and become estranged from the Goulds, so that Henry's precise relationship with him is uncertain). At the a...
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