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...born & bred in him. He took to heart the injunction of his mother (who died when he was four) that her children should be "undogmatic and unsectarian Christians, charitable to all churches and sects." He came of a long line of British squires who, from the time of Willmus Cripps in the 12th Century, had been known as champions of the underdog. Stafford's aunt, Beatrice Webb (a sister of Cripps's mother), helped turn the youthful instinct for social justice toward formal socialism. Cripps was born in 1889, the year Uncle Sidney and Aunt Beatrice published...
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