He wished to go into politics or be a man of letters, but the death of his father when he was thirteen, and that of his mother two years later, forced him to quit his studies and find work to support himself. The young Jerome attended St Marylebone Grammar School. The family moved to London and lived in Poplar, where his father set up as an ironmonger. Owing to bad investments in the local mining industry, the family suffered poverty, and debt collectors often visited, an experience Jerome described vividly in his autobiography My Life and Times (1926). His middle name was derived from George Klapka, an Hungarian exile, and friend of the family. His father, Jerome Clapp Jerome was a qualified architect, and his mother, Marguerite Jones, was the daughter of a Swansea solicitor. Novelist, essayist, humourist and playwright, Jerome Klapka Jerome was born in Walsall, Staffordshire in 1859.
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