![]() ![]() In the evenings Mildred would play the viola, Alec the violin, and the boys would contribute on violin and cello. Both parents were enthusiastic musicians: Mildred played the organ in the church at St Day, near Truro, before her marriage, and Alec was a serious and accomplished musician, playing the violin, as well as other instruments, from boyhood. Mildred, by contrast, entertained the family with terrifying Cornish ghost stories. Alec, born into a working-class Quaker family near Bristol, was an atheist, a socialist, and a rationalist. Golding's aunt and uncle both died of tuberculosis, as did their eldest child, a son, and their daughter was adopted by Alec and Mildred. Golding wrote of his great-grandparents that he knew ' nothing except that they were so quarrelsome that one part of the family changed the spelling of its name so as not to be confused with the others' ( Gekowski and Grogan, iv). ![]() c.1870), an enthusiastic supporter of the women's suffrage movement. ![]() Golding, Sir William Gerald ( 1911–1993), novelist, was born on 19 September 1911 at his maternal grandmother's house, 47 Mountwise, Newquay, Cornwall, the second of two sons of Alec Albert Golding (1876–1957), schoolteacher, and Mildred Mary Agatha, née Curnoe ( b. © Estate of Michael Ayrton collection National Portrait Gallery, London ![]()
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