Arthur Reuel Tolkien, the father of author J.R.R. Tolkien, was born in Handsworth, Staffordshire, England. He was the eldest child of John Benjamin Tolkien and Mary Jane Stowe, who had married on 16 February, 1856 in All Saints Parish Church, Birmingham, Warwickshire, England. Arthur had at least 5 siblings: *Mabel Tolkien (b. 1858), who became Mrs Thomas Evans Mitton; *Grace Bindley Tolkien (b. 1861), who became Mrs William Charles Mountain; *Florence Mary Tolkien (b. Wikipedia
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