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Milton Academy for a preparatory year. He studied at Harvard from 1906 to 1909. Returning
to Harvard in 1911 as a doctoral student in philosophy, Eliot studied the writings of F. H.
Bradley, Buddhism and Indic philology.
Instead, on 26 June 1915, he married Vivienne in a register office.
After leaving Merton, Eliot worked as a schoolteacher, most notably at Highgate School
where he taught the young John Betjeman, and later at the Royal Grammar School, High
Wycombe. On June 29 he converted to Anglicanism and in November he dropped his
American citizenship and became a British subject.
Eliot's second marriage was happy but short. On January 10, 1957, he married Esmé Valerie
Fletcher, to whom he was introduced by Collin Brooks. In sharp contrast to his first marriage,
Eliot knew Miss Fletcher well, as she had been his secretary at Faber and Faber since August
1949.
Eliot died of emphysema in London on January 4, 1965. For many years, he had health