Victory for the Slain by Hugh Lofting

Hugh John Lofting was born in Maidenhead, Berkshire on January 14th, 1886 to English and Irish parents.

Lofting was initially educated at Mount St Mary's College in Spinkhill, Derbyshire, a Jesuit boarding school from the age of eight. By 1905 at age eighteen he was to study abroad, taking classes at the esteemed Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the USA in civil engineering. Thereafter he embarked on a quest to travel widely before settling down to write of his adventures.

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