| http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#value | - Robert Bloomfield was born of a poor family in the village of Honington, Suffolk.[1][2] His father was a tailor and died of smallpox when the son was a year old.[1] It was from his mother Elizabeth, who kept the village school, that he received the rudiments of education.[1] Apprenticed at the age of eleven to his mother's brother-in-law, he worked on a farm which was part of the estate of the Duk
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