CHRONOLOGY

JAN. 25, 1874	W Somerset Maugham was born in the British Embassy in Paris.
1882	Mother died of tuberculosis.
1884	Father died of cancer.
1887	Maugham entered King’s School, Canterbury. Maugham came to England to live with his clergyman uncle, Henry Maugham.
1897	Received M D degree from St Thomas’s Hospital, London.
1906	Began love affair with Sue Jones.
1913	His proposal for marriage rejected by Sue Jones.
1916	Visited South Sea island gathering information on Paul Gauguin.
1917	Married Syrie Wellcome.
1917	Served as Chief agent in Russia for the British and American Secret Services. Contracted tuberculosis and spent time in sanatorium. Met Gerald Haxton.
1927	Syrie Wellcome divorced Maugham.
1940	Spent war years in the US.
1944	Death of Gerald Haxton.
Dec 16, 1965	Maugham passed away at his Villa, at the age of 91.

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