Jerome klapka jerome books5/9/2023 His father died in 1873, and although JK stayed on at school for another year, he was very happy to leave and go to work, aged 14, as a clerk at Euston Station. The family had been wealthy and middle class, but the Rev Jerome was not a successful entrepreneur, and had frittered away his wife’s considerable fortune so JK’s childhood was quite Dickensian in its poverty. JK was born in Walsall on May 2nd 1859, the last of the 4 Jerome children. Like his father, he seems to have decided that Clapp was not good name to have. The change of Clapp to Klapka came about when he began his writing career. But JK was born in 1859 and was actually baptised with Clapp as his middle name. In adult life he let it be known that this had been given to him as a homage to General Gyorgi Klapka – a hero of the 1849 Hungarian War of Independence, who moved to England in 1850 and became a friend of the family. JK’s middle name of Klapka is also something of a fudge. JK’s father’s surname was originally Clapp but he decided that this was not a suitable surname for a preacher so the Rev Jerome Clapp became the Rev Jerome C.
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