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1892 Between April and June: Arthur Hamilton Norway (born 7 October 1859 near Wadebridge, Cornwall - dies 1938) marries Mary Louisa Gadsden (1860 or 1861-1932) at Brentford, Middlesex. He is 32 and she is 31-ish.

1895 Between October and December: Shute's brother, Frederick Hamilton Norway, is born at Brentford, Middlesex.

1899 Jan 17: Shute is born at 16 Somerset Rd Ealing.

1904 Shute develops a stammer at about the age of five.

1907 The Norway family moves to larger house in Ealing, living there until 1912.

1907 Shute goes to a prep school in nearby Hammersmith.

1910 Shute is sent to the Dragon School at Oxford after playing truant at the South Kensington Science Museum.

Nevil Shute Norway