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VIVIAN MARY HARTLEY

In 1905 Ernest Richard Hartley arrived in Calcutta as a clerk in the brokerage offices of Piggott Chapman and Company, not yet twenty. Marriage and children were far from his thoughts. However, when he returned for a visit to his home in Bridlington, Yorkshire, in 1911, he met Gertrude Robinson Yackje.

Hartley fell in love and proposed. They were married in the fall of 1911.

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In the beginning of the winter - December 2, 1911 - they both arrived in India. Two years later, on the evening of November 5, 1913, the English doctor informed Ernest Hartley that he was the father of a fine and exceptionally beautiful baby girl.

Her name was Vivian Mary Hartley, who would one day become Vivien Leigh.

Vivian made her first stage appearance at the age of three years and four months, reciting "Little Bo Peep" for her mother's amateur theatre group.
At the age of six-and-a-half (1920), Vivian was sent to the Convent of the Sacred Heart in Roehampton, England.

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