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Oct 27, 2017 · Colm Meaney has been cast as Father Francis Morgan. Father Francis was an important figure in Tolkien’s early life, as he was the guardian of the Tolkien brothers after their mother died. Colm Meaney will be familiar to fans of Star Trek: The Next Generation.
Jul 29, 2024 · Being the breadwinner, his sudden death rendered the family destitute. His mother, Mabel, decided to stay in the UK, settling in a cheap cottage in the village of Sarehole, near Birmingham.
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Mabel Tolkien (née Suffield; 1870 – 14 November 1904) was the mother of J. R. R. Tolkien. Her parents, John Suffield and Emily Jane Sparrow, lived in Stirling Road, Birmingham and owned a shop in the city centre.
Jun 19, 2021 · Their mother is Joan Tolkien, 76, JRR Tolkien’s granddaughter, who now lives in Oxford; their father, Hugh Baker, 81, lives in Chester. They split up when Royd was a teenager, and he took the name of Tolkien.
6 days ago · In a letter to his own son J.R.R. Tolkien wrote that his mother was a ‘gifted lady of great beauty and wit, greatly stricken by God with grief and suffering who died in youth of a disease hastened by persecution of her faith.’
Apr 17, 2019 · When Tolkien was 12, his mother died of diabetes. Crucially for Tolkien’s later development, Mabel had converted to Catholicism, and thereby alienated most of her and her husband’s relations (many of the Tolkiens were Baptists).
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Mother dies. Mabel Tolkien dies of diabetes, aged thirty-four. Father Francis Morgan, a Catholic priest, becomes the boys’ guardian. 14 November
