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Who raises Tom Jones as a child in Tom Jones?
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Henry Fielding, frontispiece to Fielding's Works (1st ed., 1762), engraving by James Basire after a drawing by William Hogarth
In the novel Tom Jones, the protagonist is raised by Squire Allworthy, a kindhearted widower who adopts the infant foundling and names him Tom Jones.12