![]() The family lived there from January 1922 until May 1928. It was while attending St Paul’s that Berlin lived at 33 Upper Addison Gardens – a period he later referred to as ‘my golden childhood’. ![]() And so, after arriving in this country knowing only a few words of English, Berlin started at Arundel House School in Surbiton, and then became a pupil at St Paul’s School in 1922. ![]() The family lived in Russia for five years from 1915 until 1920 and returned briefly to Latvia before the anti-Semitism they encountered there forced them to make a new home in London in February 1921.īerlin’s father, a wealthy timber merchant, was an Anglophile who had always wanted to educate his only child in an English public school. Isaiah Berlin was born on 6 June 1909 in Riga, Latvia, to Russian Jewish parents. ![]()
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