Robert Brown

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Robert married Priscilla Johnson on 12 Nov 1724 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States. Priscilla was born on 5 Jan 1698 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Initiatory (LDS): 21 Feb 1906, MANTI

Mary married William Greenleaf on 3 Jun 1747 in Yarmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States. William (son of Daniel Greenleaf and Elizabeth Gookin) was born on 10 Jan 1725 in Yarmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States; died on 21 Jul 1803 in New Bedford, Bristol, Massachusetts, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Initiatory (LDS): 15 Mar 2016, REDLA

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• Initiatory (LDS): 21 Jan 1907

Family/Spouse: Samuel Eliot. Samuel (son of Andrew Eliot and Hanna Parker) was born on 17 Jun 1748 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Initiatory (LDS): 19 Jul 1907, MANTI

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• Initiatory (LDS): 18 Jul 1907, MANTI

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• Initiatory (LDS): 25 Jan 1907, MANTI

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• Initiatory (LDS): 20 Feb 1907, MANTI

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• Initiatory (LDS): 18 Jul 1907, MANTI

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• Initiatory (LDS): 4 Mar 1904, MANTI

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• Initiatory (LDS): 18 Jul 1907, MANTI

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• Initiatory (LDS): 20 Feb 1907, MANTI

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• Initiatory (LDS): 18 Oct 1906, MANTI

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• Initiatory (LDS): 17 Oct 1906, MANTI

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• Initiatory (LDS): 21 Dec 1906, MANTI

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• Initiatory (LDS): 20 Jan 1907

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• Initiatory (LDS): 22 Feb 1907

Ann married William Cranch on 6 Apr 1795 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States. William was born on 17 Jul 1769 in Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States; died on 1 Sep 1855 in Washington, District of Columbia, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Initiatory (LDS): 16 Mar 1954

William married Abby Adams Cranch on 29 Jun 1837 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States. Abby (daughter of William Cranch and Ann Nancy Greenleaf) was born on 20 Feb 1817 in Alexandria City, Virginia, United States; died on 20 Oct 1908 in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Initiatory (LDS): 16 Feb 1910, MANTI

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• Initiatory (LDS): 4 Mar 1908, MANTI

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• Initiatory (LDS): 8 Feb 1907

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• Initiatory (LDS): 22 Sep 1909, MANTI

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• Initiatory (LDS): 1 Oct 1909, MANTI

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• Initiatory (LDS): 26 Oct 1944, SGEOR

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• Initiatory (LDS): 13 Oct 1910, MANTI

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• Initiatory (LDS): 14 Oct 1909

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• Initiatory (LDS): 13 Oct 1909, MANTI

Abby married William Greenleaf Eliot on 29 Jun 1837 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States. William (son of Samuel Eliot and Elizabeth Greenleaf) was born on 5 Aug 1811 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States; died on 23 Jan 1887 in Pass Christian, Harrison, Mississippi, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Initiatory (LDS): 24 May 1957, IFALL

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• Initiatory (LDS): 18 Dec 1956, IFALL

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Henry married Charlotte Champ Stearns on 27 Oct 1868 in Lexington, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States. Charlotte (daughter of Thomas Stearns and Charlotte H Blood) was born on 22 Oct 1843 in Baltimore City, Maryland, United States; died on 10 Sep 1929 in Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States; was buried in Bellefontaine Cemetery, St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Initiatory (LDS): 25 Jul 1956, ALBER

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• Initiatory (LDS): 4 Oct 1958, LANGE

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• Initiatory (LDS): 15 Oct 1993, SLAKE

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• Initiatory (LDS): 15 May 2003, MTIMP

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• Initiatory (LDS): 10 Nov 2011, JRIVE

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• Initiatory (LDS): 11 Nov 2011, PORTL

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• Initiatory (LDS): 11 Nov 2011, PORTL

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Notes:

Thomas Stearns Eliot, OM (26 September 1888 – 4 January 1965), was an es s ayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic, and "one of t h e twentieth century's major poets". Born in St. Louis, Missouri, in th e U nited States, to a prominent Boston Brahmin family, he moved to Engla nd i n 1914 at the age of 25, settling, working, and marrying there. He b ecam e a British subject in 1927 at the age of 39, renouncing his America n pas sport.

Eliot attracted widespread attention for his poem "The Love Song of J. A l fred Prufrock" (1915), which was seen as a masterpiece of the Modernis t m ovement. It was followed by some of the best-known poems in the Engli sh l anguage, including The Waste Land (1922), "The Hollow Men" (1925), " Ash W ednesday" (1930), and Four Quartets (1943). He was also known for h is sev en plays, particularly Murder in the Cathedral (1935) and The Cock tail Pa rty (1949). He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948 , "for hi s outstanding, pioneer contribution to present-day poetry"

Early life and education
The Eliots were a Boston Brahmin family with roots in Old and New Englan d . Thomas Eliot's paternal grandfather, William Greenleaf Eliot, had mov e d to St. Louis, Missouri, to establish a Unitarian Christian church the re . His father, Henry Ware Eliot (1843–1919), was a successful businessm an , president and treasurer of the Hydraulic-Press Brick Company in St L oui s. His mother, Charlotte Champe Stearns (1843–1929), wrote poetry an d wa s a social worker, a new profession in the early 20th century.

Eliot was the last of six surviving children; his parents were both 44 y e ars old when he was born. Eliot was born at 2635 Locust Street, a prope rt y owned by his grandfather, William Greenleaf Eliot. His four sister s wer e between 11 and 19 years older; his brother was eight years older . Know n to family and friends as Tom, he was the namesake of his materna l grand father, Thomas Stearns.

Eliot's childhood infatuation with literature can be ascribed to sever a l factors. Firstly, he had to overcome physical limitations as a child . S truggling from a congenital double inguinal hernia, he could not part icip ate in many physical activities and thus was prevented from socializ ing w ith his peers. As he was often isolated, his love for literature de velope d. Once he learned to read, the young boy immediately became obses sed wit h books and was absorbed in tales depicting savages, the Wild Wes t, or Ma rk Twain's thrill-seeking Tom Sawyer. In his memoir of Eliot, hi s frien d Robert Sencourt comments that the young Eliot "would often cur l up in t he window-seat behind an enormous book, setting the drug of dre ams agains t the pain of living." Secondly, Eliot credited his hometown w ith fuellin g his literary vision: "It is self-evident that St. Louis aff ected me mor e deeply than any other environment has ever done. I feel th at there is s omething in having passed one's childhood beside the big ri ver, which i s incommunicable to those people who have not. I consider my self fortunat e to have been born here, rather than in Boston, or New Yor k, or London."

From 1898 to 1905, Eliot attended Smith Academy, where his studies inclu d ed Latin, Ancient Greek, French, and German. He began to write poetry w he n he was fourteen under the influence of Edward Fitzgerald's Rubaiya t o f Omar Khayyam, a translation of the poetry of Omar Khayyam. He sai d th e results were gloomy and despairing and he destroyed them. His firs t pub lished poem, "A Fable For Feasters", was written as a school exerci se an d was published in the Smith Academy Record in February 1905. Als o publis hed there in April 1905 was his oldest surviving poem in manuscr ipt, an u ntitled lyric, later revised and reprinted as "Song" in The Har vard Advoc ate, Harvard University's student magazine. He also publishe d three shor t stories in 1905, "Birds of Prey", "A Tale of a Whale" an d "The Man Wh o Was King". The last mentioned story significantly reflect s his explorat ion of Igorot Village while visiting the 1904 World's Fai r of St. Louis . Such a link with primitive people importantly antedate s his anthropolog ical studies at Harvard.

Eliot lived in St. Louis, Missouri for the first sixteen years of his li f e at the house on Locust St. where he was born. After going away to sch oo l in 1905, he only returned to St. Louis for vacations and visits. Des pit e moving away from the city, Eliot wrote to a friend that the "Missou ri a nd the Mississippi have made a deeper impression on me than any othe r par t of the world.

Following graduation, Eliot attended Milton Academy in Massachusetts f o r a preparatory year, where he met Scofield Thayer who later publishe d Th e Waste Land. He studied philosophy at Harvard College from 1906 t o 1909 , earning his bachelor's degree after three years, instead of th e usual f our While a student, Eliot was placed on academic probation an d graduate d with a pass degree (i.e. no honours). He recovered and persi sted, attai ning a B.A. in an elective program best described as comparat ive literatu re in three years, and an M.A. in English literature in th e fourth. Fran k Kermode writes that the most important moment of Eliot' s undergraduat e career was in 1908 when he discovered Arthur Symons's Th e Symbolist Mov ement in Literature. This introduced him to Jules Laforgu e, Arthur Rimbau d, and Paul Verlaine. Without Verlaine, Eliot wrote, h e might never hav e heard of Tristan Corbière and his book Les amours jau nes, a work that a ffected the course of Eliot's life. The Harvard Advoca te published some o f his poems and he became lifelong friends with Conra d Aiken, the America n writer and critic.

After working as a philosophy assistant at Harvard from 1909 to 1910, El i ot moved to Paris where, from 1910 to 1911, he studied philosophy at t h e Sorbonne. He attended lectures by Henri Bergson and read poetry wit h He nri Alban-Fournier. From 1911 to 1914, he was back at Harvard studyi ng In dian philosophy and Sanskrit. Eliot was awarded a scholarship to Me rton C ollege, Oxford, in 1914. He first visited Marburg, Germany, wher e he plan ned to take a summer programme, but when the First World War br oke out h e went to Oxford instead. At the time so many American student s attende d Merton that the Junior Common Room proposed a motion "that th is societ y abhors the Americanization of Oxford". It was defeated by tw o votes, af ter Eliot reminded the students how much they owed American c ulture.

Eliot wrote to Conrad Aiken on New Year's Eve 1914: "I hate university t o wns and university people, who are the same everywhere, with pregnant w iv es, sprawling children, many books and hideous pictures on the walls.. . O xford is very pretty, but I don't like to be dead." Escaping Oxford , Elio t spent much of his time in London. This city had a monumental an d life-a ltering effect on Eliot for several reasons, the most significan t of whic h was his introduction to the influential American literary fig ure Ezra P ound. A connection through Aiken resulted in an arranged meeti ng and on 2 2 September 1914, Eliot paid a visit to Pound's flat. Pound i nstantly dee med Eliot "worth watching" and was crucial to Eliot's beginn ing career a s a poet, as he is credited with promoting Eliot through soc ial events an d literary gatherings. Thus, according to biographer John W orthen, durin g his time in England Eliot "was seeing as little of Oxfor d as possible" . He was instead spending long periods of time in London , in the compan y of Ezra Pound and "some of the modern artists whom th e war has so far s pared... It was Pound who helped most, introducing hi m everywhere." In th e end, Eliot did not settle at Merton and left afte r a year. In 1915 he t aught English at Birkbeck, University of London.

By 1916, he had completed a doctoral dissertation for Harvard on "Knowle d ge and Experience in the Philosophy of F. H. Bradley", but he failed t o r eturn for the viva voce exam.

Marriage
Vivienne Haigh-Wood Eliot, passport photograph from 1920.
In a letter to Aiken late in December 1914, Eliot, aged 26, wrote, " I a m very dependent upon women (I mean female society)." Less than fou r mont hs later, Thayer introduced Eliot to Vivienne Haigh-Wood, a Cambri dge gov erness. They were married at Hampstead Register Office on 26 Jun e 1915.

After a short visit alone to his family in the United States, Eliot retu r ned to London and took several teaching jobs, such as lecturing at Birk be ck College, University of London. The philosopher Bertrand Russell too k a n interest in Vivienne while the newlyweds stayed in his flat. Some s chol ars have suggested that she and Russell had an affair, but the alleg ation s were never confirmed.

The marriage was markedly unhappy, in part because of Vivienne's healt h i ssues. In a letter addressed to Ezra Pound, she covers an extensive l is t of her symptoms, which included a habitually high temperature, fatig ue , insomnia, migraines, and colitis. This, coupled with apparent menta l in stability, meant that she was often sent away by Eliot and her docto rs fo r extended periods of time in the hope of improving her health, an d as ti me went on, he became increasingly detached from her. The coupl e formall y separated in 1933 and in 1938 Vivienne's brother, Maurice, ha d her comm itted to a lunatic asylum, against her will, where she remaine d until he r death of heart disease in 1947. Their relationship became th e subject o f a 1984 play Tom & Viv, which in 1994 was adapted as a fil m of the sam e name.

In a private paper written in his sixties, Eliot confessed: "I came to p e rsuade myself that I was in love with Vivienne simply because I wante d t o burn my boats and commit myself to staying in England. And she pers uade d herself (also under the influence of [Ezra] Pound) that she woul d sav e the poet by keeping him in England. To her, the marriage brough t no hap piness. To me, it brought the state of mind out of which came Th e Waste L and."

Thomas married Vivien Haigh-Wood on 26 Jun 1915 in London, Middlesex, England. Vivien (daughter of Charles Haigh Wood and Rose Esther Robinson) was born on 28 May 1888 in Bury, Lancashire, England; died on 22 Jan 1947 in Harringay, Middlesex, England; was buried in Pinner Cemetery, Middlesex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Thomas married Esmé Valerie Fletcher on 10 Jan 1957 in London, Middlesex, England. Esmé was born on 17 Aug 1926; died on 9 Nov 2012. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]