MS 968 04

MS 968 04

Photographs of Maurice Baring and related drawing

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Maurice Baring OE (1874 – 1945) English dramatist, poet, translator and essayist. Educated at Eton and Trinity College, he served in World War I in the Intelligence Corps and Royal Flying Corps and later as an officer in the Royal Air Force officer. Accomplished classicist, fluent in 5 to 6 languages, he was a staunch anti-intellectualist. He travelled widely, especially in Russia, where he lived from 1905 to 1906. He was awarded an OBE in 1918. After WWI he turned to writing novels, and an autobiography, Puppet show of Memory (1922). He converted to Roman Catholicism. He was associated with the literary group of G K Chesterton and especially Hilaire Belloc. In 1930 he moved to a villa in Rottingdean, where he died from Parkinson’s disease in 1945. Baring was a childhood friend of Cecilia Warre Cornish (later Fisher). They remained in close and regular contact throughout their lives

1876 - 1945

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Photographs of Maurice Baring and a drawing

ECL: MS 429 Maurice Baring collection

MS-0214 Maurice Baring collection: Harry Ransom Centre, University of Texas at Austin