George Henry Borrow (1803 - 1881) was a British writer, traveler, missionary and philologist from England. George Borrow was born in East Dereham, Norfolk. He was the son of Thomas Borrow (1758 - 1824), a recruiting officer, and his wife Ann Perfrement (1772 - 1858). He attended the Royal High School in Edinburgh and Norwich Grammar School. He studied law, although his main interests were literature and languages. In 1825 he began his first major European tour of France and Germany. He then visited Russia, Portugal, Spain, and Morocco. From 1837 to 1839 he traveled through Spain to deliver to the Gitanos the Gospel of Luke, which he had translated into Caló. He married Mary Clarke on April 23, 1840, and thereafter lived in Lowestoft in the county of Suffolk, where he wrote his literary works. His travels gave him a close affinity with the Romani people of Europe, who figure strongly in his work. His best-known books are The Bible in Spain and the novels Lavengro and The Romany Rye set in his time with the English Romanichal (Gypsies).