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Arthur Reuel Tolkien (c. February 1857—15 February 1896), 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,[1] who had married on 16 February, 1856 in All Saints Parish Church, Birmingham, Warwickshire, England.