Wednesday, May 02, 2007

Birthday

Jerome, Jerome Klapka (1859–1927), novelist and playwright,
was born on 2 May 1859 at Bradford Street, Walsall, Staffordshire, the
fourth child and younger son of Jerome Clapp Jerome (1807–1872),
nonconformist lay preacher and Staffordshire coalmine owner, and
Marguerite Jones (d. 1874), daughter of a Swansea solicitor.

from the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography's daily lives.

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1 comment:

Paula said...

Oh, this is what you meant. HB HB to Jerome Jerome.