Thomas Hardy Cottage Dorchester Dorset

Thomas Hardy Cottage

Birth place of Thomas Hardy

Thomas Hardy was born on 2 June 1840 in Higher Bockhampton (then Upper Bockhampton), a hamlet in the parish ofStinsfordto the east ofDorchesterin Dorset, England, where his father Thomas (18111892) worked as a stonemason and local builder, and married his mother Jemima (ne Hand;18131904) in Beaminster, towards the end of 1839. Jemima was well-read, and she educated Thomas until he went to his first school at Bockhampton at the age of eight. For several years he attended Mr. Last's Academy for Young Gentlemen in Dorchester, where he learned Latin and demonstrated academic potential. Because Hardy's family lacked the means for a university education, his formal education ended at the age of sixteen, when he became apprenticed to James Hicks, a local architect. (From Wikipedia)

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