Member of the Bloomsbury group, nicknamed the Goth. Second child of Sir Leslie and Julia Stephen, brother of the writer Virginia Woolf and the painter Vanessa Bell. He was named after his mother and Julia's uncle, H. Thoby Prinsep. He attended Trinity College, Cambridge and there met the "astonishing fellows" Lytton Strachey, Clive Bell, Saxon Sydney-Turner and Leonard Woolf. After the death of his father in 1904, he and his three siblings moved to 46 Gordon Square and began to host the Thursday evening gatherings that were the germ of the "Bloomsbury group." Virginia Woolf based the central character of her novel Jacob's Room on Thoby. He died of acute Typhoid after a holiday in Greece.
Member of the Bloomsbury group, nicknamed the Goth. Second child of Sir Leslie and Julia Stephen, brother of the writer Virginia Woolf and the painter Vanessa Bell. He was named after his mother and Julia's uncle, H. Thoby Prinsep. He attended Trinity College, Cambridge and there met the "astonishing fellows" Lytton Strachey, Clive Bell, Saxon Sydney-Turner and Leonard Woolf. After the death of his father in 1904, he and his three siblings moved to 46 Gordon Square and began to host the Thursday evening gatherings that were the germ of the "Bloomsbury group." Virginia Woolf based the central character of her novel Jacob's Room on Thoby. He died of acute Typhoid after a holiday in Greece.
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