Sri Aurobindo
Autobiographical Notes
and Other Writings of Historical Interest
Part One. Autobiographical Notes
2. Sri Aurobindo’s corrections of statements in a
proposed biography
Early Life in India and England. 1872–1893
In London [1]
[He was sent to boarding school in London.]
St. Paul’s was a day school. The three brothers lived
in London for some time with the mother of Mr. Drewett but she left them after a
quarrel between her and Manmohan about religion. The old Mrs. Drewett was
fervently Evangelical and she said she 
would not
live with an atheist as the house might fall down on her. Afterwards Benoybhusan
and Aurobindo occupied a room in the South Kensington Liberal Club where Mr. J.
S. Cotton, brother of Sir Henry Cotton, for some time Lieutenant Governor of
Bengal,1 was the secretary and Benoy
assisted him in his work. Manmohan went into lodgings. This was the time of the
greatest suffering and poverty. Subsequently Aurobindo also went separately into
lodgings until he took up residence at Cambridge.