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Arthur Hugh Clough (pronounced "cluff"), a fine poet whose experiments in extending the range of literary language and subject were ahead of his time, was born the first day of 1819 to James and Ann (Perfect) Clough in Liverpool. One biographer describes his father as an "intermittently unsuccessful cotton merchant from the North Wales landed gentry" and notes that his mother was more solidly middle-class. The family moved to Charleston, S. C., in 1822, returning briefly in 1828 to enroll Arthur in an English school, and in 1829 he entered Rugby, perhaps the most important independent school in nineteenth-century England.
