Maurice Baring

Baring was the 5th son of Baron Revelstoke, the banker. His mother was the grand-daughter of the Second Earl Grey. He was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge. He entered the Diplomatic Service in 1898. In 1904 he resigned to become a war correspondent in Manchuria for the Morning Post; he later worked for The Times. He spent the war as the private secretary to first Sir David Henderson and then Hugh Trenchard, the commanders of the Royal Flying Corps. He was an educated, cultured person and after the war he returned to his life of travel and writing.