Baring

Maurice Baring (1874-1945) was a British man of letters, diplomat, and writer from the prominent Baring banking family, educated at Eton and Cambridge. He served in the diplomatic service, reported on the Russo-Japanese War, and later became a prolific author of novels, poetry, plays, essays, and translations, notably promoting Russian literature in the West. A friend of Belloc and Chesterton, he converted to Catholicism in 1909 and wrote acclaimed works like *C* (1924) and *Cat’s Cradle* (1925) despite later health struggles with Parkinson’s disease.[1][2][5]