He grew up in the home of his foundry worker grandfather, William Bleasby but later told his family that he attended Tadcaster Grammar School near Leeds, an education that normally would not have been available to the son of a factory worker.
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Frank Westbury was born under the name James Bleasby in Hunslet, an industrial suburb of Leeds, Yorkshire, England on 5 May 1838.
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Another favourite theme was that of the prodigal son: the struggle of a disgraced scion of a well-to-do family to redeem himself in society and his father’s eyes.
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