The Guelph is 5th on the right-hand list
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1896 - his father Arthur, still in South Africa, dies
1896 - 1910 the family lives in and around Birmingham.
Southampton to Birmingham Timetable showing details of route.
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1904 - Mabel dies leaving JRR and his young brother Hilary in the care of Father Francis Morgan
1910 - JRR wins a scholarship to Oxford University
1915 - he gains First Class Honours, and is commissioned into the Lancashire Fusiliers
1916 - (March) he and Edith Bratt are married
1916 - (June) he sails for the war in France
1916 - (November) he is returned to England with trench fever aboard the HMHS Asturias, arriving at Southampton. Click here to see pictures of Asturias before and after being torpedoed
Click to see the documentation: Tolkien returns to Blighty
1918 - Tolkien is posted to the Humber garrison
1920 - 1924 appointed Reader, then Professor of English Language at Leeds University.
During this time the Tolkiens take family holidays at Filey in Yorkshire.
1925 - elected Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon at Oxford.
Family resides at Northmoor Road
1945 elected Merton Professor of English
1954 - first 2 volumes of The Lord of the Rings published
1955 - third volume published
1959 - Tolkien retires
1966 - 15th Sept JRR and Edith depart from Southampton on a Mediterranean cruise
1966 - 6th Oct - they return to Southampton
1968 - JRR and Edith move to Poole in Dorset
1971 - Edith dies
1972 - returns to Oxford
1973 - JRR Tolkien dies
For more details see Humphrey Carpenter's JRR Tolkien: A Biography, Christina Scull and Wayne G. Hammond, The Tolkien Chronology and Guide, vol 1 Chronology.
