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Maurice Baring (27 April 1874 – 14 December 1945) was a versatile English man of letters, known as a dramatist, poet, novelist, translator and essayist, and also as a travel writer and war correspondent. Events 1124 - David I becomes King of Scotland. 1296 - Battle of Dunbar: The Scots are defeated Year 1874 ( MDCCCLXXIV) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Events 1287 - St Lucia's flood: The Zuider Zee sea wall in the Netherlands collapses killing over 50000 people Year 1945 ( MCMXLV) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar An intellectual (from the adjective meaning "involving thought and reason" is a person who tries to use his or her Intelligence and analytical thinking,

He was the eighth child, and fifth son, of Edward Charles Baring, first Baron Revelstoke, of the Baring banking family, and his wife Louisa Emily Charlotte Bulteel, granddaughter of the second Earl Grey. Edward Charles Baring 1st Baron Revelstoke ( 13 April 1828 - 17 July 1897) was a British banker Baron Revelstoke, of Membland in the County of Devon is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. He was educated at Eton College and Trinity College, Cambridge. Eton College, or just Eton, is a world-famous British Independent school for boys founded in 1440 by King Henry VI. Trinity College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge in Cambridge, England. After an abortive start on a diplomatic career, he travelled widely, particularly in Russia. Russia (Россия Rossiya) or the Russian Federation ( Rossiyskaya Federatsiya) is a transcontinental Country extending He reported as an eye-witness on the Russo-Japanese War for the London Morning Post. The Russo-Japanese War (日露戦争 Romaji: Nichi-Ro Sensō Русско-японская война Russko-Yaponskaya Voyna;, 10 February 1904 – 5 September The Morning Post, as the paper was named on its Masthead, was a conservative daily Newspaper published in London from 1772 to 1937 when it was

At the start of World War I he joined the Royal Flying Corps, where he served as assistant to Trenchard. World War I (abbreviated WWI; also known as the First World War, the Great War, and the War to End All The Royal Flying Corps (RFC was the over-land air arm of the British military during most of the First World War. Marshal of the Royal Air Force Hugh Montague Trenchard 1st Viscount Trenchard GCB OM GCVO DSO (3 February 1873 - 10 February In 1918 Baring served as a staff officer in the Royal Air Force and was appointed OBE. In 1925 Baring received an honorary commission as a wing commander in the Reserve of Air Force Officers. Wing Commander ( Wg Cdr in the RAF, WGCDR in the RNZAF and RAAF, W/C in the former RCAF) is a commissioned

After the war he enjoyed a period of success as a dramatist, and began to write novels. He suffered from chronic illness in the last years of his life; for the final 15 years of his life he was debilitated by Parkinson's Disease.

He was widely connected socially, to some of the Cambridge Apostles, to The Coterie, and to the literary group around G. K. Chesterton and Hilaire Belloc in particular. The Cambridge Apostles, also known as the Cambridge Conversazione Society, is an elite intellectual Secret society at the University of Cambridge founded For other uses see Coterie The Coterie comprised a fashionable and famous set of English Aristocrats and Intellectuals Gilbert Keith Chesterton (29 May 1874 – 14 June 1936 was an influential English writer of the early 20th century Joseph Hilaire Pierre René Belloc (27 July 1870 &ndash 16 July 1953 was a French -born Writer who became a Naturalised British subject He was staunch in his anti-intellectualism with respect to the arts, and a convinced practical joker. Anti-intellectualism describes a sentiment of hostility towards or mistrust of Intellectuals and Intellectual pursuits He became a Roman Catholic convert in 1909.

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