Asm 02/07/24
Arnold Joseph Toynbee was born on Palm Sunday, 14 April 1889, in his great uncle's house near Paddington station, London. His name was a burden in itself, commemorating, as it did, the infant's famous uncle, Arnold, and his spectacularly successful grandfather, Joseph. The burden became the greater as his father's career faltered, focusing his mother's hopes and aspirations more and more on her…