 Mildred Walpole found it hard to settle in New Zealand , and something of her restlessness and insecurity affected the character of her eldest child . In 1889 , two years after the birth of the couple 's daughter , Dorothea ( " Dorothy " ) , Somerset Walpole accepted a prominent and well @-@ paid academic post at the General Theological Seminary , New York . Robert ( " Robin " ) , the third of the couple 's children , was born in New York in 1892 . Hugh and Dorothy were taught by a governess until the middle of 1893 , when the parents decided that he needed an English education . 
 Mildred Walpole found it hard to settle in New Zealand , and something of her restlessness and insecurity affected the character of her eldest child . In 1889 , two years after the birth of the couple <a href='null_genetive' title='1'><mark>'s</mark></a>daughter , Dorothea ( " Dorothy " ) , Somerset Walpole accepted a prominent and well @-@ paid academic post at the General Theological Seminary , New York . Robert ( " Robin " ) , the third of the couple <a href='null_genetive' title='2'><mark>'s</mark></a>children , was born in New York in 1892 . Hugh and Dorothy <a href='uninflect' title='3'><mark>were</mark></a> taught by a governess until the middle of 1893 , when the parents decided that he needed an English education . 
Mildred Walpole found it hard to settle in New Zealand , and something of her restlessness and insecurity affected da character of her eldest child . In 1889 , two years after tdabirth of the couple  daughter , Dorothea ( " Dorothy " ) , Somerset Walpole accepted a prominent and well @-@ paid academic post at thdaeneral Theological Seminary , New York . Robert ( " Robin " ) , thedaird of the couple  children , was born in New York in 1892 . Hugh and Dorothy was taught by a governess till the middle of 1893 , when the daents decided dat he needed an English education .