Background
Mr. Milne was born in Chelsea, London, United Kingdom, on August 21, 1920. He was a son of author A. A. Milne.
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Millions of readers throughout the world have grown up with the stories and verses of A. A. Milne; have envied Christopher Robin in his enchanted world; laughed at Pooh - a bear of very little brain - and worried about Piglet and his problems.
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1974
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The need to outgrow one's childhood influences and establish an individual identity is common to us all, but for Christopher Milne it was an especially difficult experience in view of the unique problems he faced as the son of A. A. Milne.
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1979
Mr. Milne was born in Chelsea, London, United Kingdom, on August 21, 1920. He was a son of author A. A. Milne.
At age 6, Christopher Milne attended Miss Walters' school. On 15 January 1929, he started attending Gibbs, a boys' day school, located on Sloane Square. In May 1930, he started boarding school at Boxgrove School near Guildford. Eventually, Mr. Milne earned a mathematics scholarship at Stowe School and then Trinity in 1939. He finally departed Cotchford Farm in August 1942.
Although sometimes resentful that the fictional story intruded on his private life, Mr. Milne wrote several memoirs, worked to preserve the endangered Ashdown Forest (which was the setting of some of his father’s stories), and was often willing to autograph Pooh books in return for a donation to charity. A graduate of Trinity College at Cambridge University, Christopher Robin Milne was also a veteran of the British Army, having served in Italy during World War II.
Soon after his return to England, he opened the Harbour Bookshop in Dartmouth, and did carpentry work on the side for his daughter as a hobby. In 1974, Mr. Milne published an autobiography, The Enchanted Places, which was followed in 1979 by The Path through the Trees. Both volumes focus on Mr. Milne’s past, including his childhood and his later relationship with his father. In Christopher Milne’s 1982 work, The Hollow on the Hill: Search for a Personal Philosophy, he shares his love for nature, and reveals his work for the preservation of the environment, especially the woodlands where he grew up. Mr. Milne also published a book of essays, The Open Garden, in 1988.
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1974Christopher Milne had one child, a daughter named Clare, who had cerebral palsy. In adult life, she led several charitable campaigns for the condition. She died in 2012 at the age of 56 from natural causes due to a heart abnormality.