George Arthur

A character in Thomas Hughes' novel "Tom Brown's Schooldays".  At the point of his first meeting Tom, he's described as "a slight, pale boy, with large blue eyes and light fair hair, who seemed ready to shrink through the floor" and "just the boy whose first half-year at a public school would be misery to himself if he were left alone, or constant anxiety to any one who meant to see him through his troubles."&nb... more

A character in Thomas Hughes' novel "Tom Brown's Schooldays".  At the point of his first meeting Tom, he's described as "a slight, pale boy, with large blue eyes and light fair hair, who seemed ready to shrink through the floor" and "just the boy whose first half-year at a public school would be misery to himself if he were left alone, or constant anxiety to any one who meant to see him through his troubles."  It's also revealed that his father has died, his mother lives, and he has sisters but no brothers. less