What was Thomas Hobbes’s childhood like?

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Hobbes’s father was a quick-tempered vicar who, disgraced after engaging in a brawl at his own church door, disappeared, abandoning his three children to the care of his brother, a glover. When Hobbes was 4, he was sent to school at Westport, Wiltshire, then to a private school, and, at 15, to Magdalen Hall, Oxford.