How to understand this sentence?
… He attended schools in Edinburgh, and studied with private tutors at places to which his parents had gone for the benefit of his health or of their own.
What's the "places"?

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How to understand this sentence?
… He attended schools in Edinburgh, and studied with private tutors at places to which his parents had gone for the benefit of his health or of their own. 
  What's the "places"?

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David without reading the whole passage it is a little difficult to get the context of this sentence. But I think it means that he studied at the same locations that his parents did.
In the uk, usa and australia a lot of prestige is earned and networks are made by attending the same school as your parents or other family members did.

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I think it means that his family moved around because of his health and their own,and so he studied in many different locations.However,as JMthirks says,without the entire context it is hard to know.

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