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Thomas Hobbes
Thomas Hobbes, detail of an oil painting by John Michael Wright; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
After his father, a quick-tempered vicar, abandoned the family following a public disgrace, Thomas Hobbes and his two siblings were placed in the care of their paternal uncle. This uncle was a well-to-do glover residing in Malmesbury.12