Clive Staples Lewis was born in Belfast, Ireland on November 29, 1898. His father was Albert James Lewis, a solicitor whose father had come to Ireland from Wales. His mother was Flora Augusta Hamilton Lewis, the daughter of a Church of Ireland minister. He had one older brother, Warren Hamilton Lewis . At the age of four, shortly after his dog Jacksie was hit by a car, Lewis announced that his name was now Jacksie. At first he would answer to no other name, but later accepted Jacks which became Jack, the name by which he was known to friends and family for the rest of his life. At six his family moved into "Little Lea", the house the elder Mr. Lewis built for Mrs. Lewis, in Strandtown, Northern Ireland.

Lewis was initially schooled by private tutors before being sent to the Wynyard School in Watford, Hertfordshire, in 1908, the same year that his mother died of cancer. Lewis's brother had already enrolled there three years previously. The school was closed not long afterwards......

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Title: Lion, Witch, And Wardrobe
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Approximate Pages: 3 (250 words per double-spaced page)

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