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Richard Horatio Blair (born 14 May 1944) [1] is a British trustee and patron who is the only (adopted) son of English author George Orwell. [2] Life and works
The Orwell Society is a literary society and a UK registered charity. It was founded in 2011 with the aim of promoting the understanding and appreciation of the life and work of George Orwell (the pen name of Eric Arthur Blair 1903–1950). Its patron is Richard Blair, George Orwell's adopted son.
Orwell's adopted son, Richard Horatio Blair, was brought up by Orwell's sister Avril, his legal guardian, and her husband, Bill Dunn. [153] In 1979, Sonia Brownell brought a High Court action against Harrison when he declared an intention to subdivide his 25 per cent share of the company between his three children. For Sonia, the consequence of ...
Richard Blair (musician), founder of ChocQuibTown Richard Blair (patron) (born 1944), son of George Orwell Richard Blair-Oliphant , American composer of music for film and television
The British political theorist Sir Bernard Crick founded The Orwell Prize in 1993, using money from the royalties of the hardback edition of his biography of Orwell. Its current sponsors are Orwell's son Richard Blair, The Political Quarterly, the Joseph Rowntree Foundation and the Orwell Estate's literary agents, A. M. Heath. [5]
Eileen O'Shaughnessy Blair, George Orwell's little-known wife, who died during surgery in 1945 while her husband was in France, is the subject of a necessarily incomplete biography, "Wifedom."
There may be no one who can say "I told you so" better than George Orwell, who was born today, June 25th in 1903. In Orwell's novel "1984" — which was published in 1949 — the English author ...
In her memoirs, Elizaveta Fen recalled Orwell and his friend and mentor Richard Rees "draped" at the fireplace, looking, she thought, "moth-eaten and prematurely aged." [8] Blair and O'Shaughnessy married the next year, on 9 June 1936, at St Mary's Church, Wallington, Hertfordshire (as Eric Arthur Blair and Eileen Maud O'Shaughnessy. At this ...