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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. He was educated at Eton College and Trinity College, Cambridge . After an abortive start on a diplomatic career, he travelled widely, particularly in Russia . He reported as an eye-witness on the Russo-Japanese War for the London '' Morning Post ''. At the start of World War I he joined the Royal Flying Corps , where he served as assistant to Trenchard . 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. He was staunch in his Anti-intellectualism with respect to the arts, and a convinced practical joker. He became a Roman Catholic convert in 1909. WORKS
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