~ Date and Place of Birth: June 25, 1903-Motahari, India
~Date and Place of Death: Jan. 21, 1950-London
~Second child of Richard Walmesley Blair and Ida Mabel Limonzin.
~His father was a civil servant in the opium department and his mother was the daughter of a tea-merchant in Burma.
~Member of Indian Imperial Police for 5 years
~Resigned from Indian Imperial Police in 1927
*His life as a policeman was a distraction from the life he really wanted, which was to be a writer.
*He had come to feel that, as a policeman in Burma, he was supporting a political system in which he could no longer believe.
~Lived life amongst the poor becaue he wanted to overcome a repulsion that he believed was typical amongst his class.
~always believed he was supposed to be a writer.
