Educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge, Baring entered the diplomatic service on leaving school and served in Paris, Rome and Copenhagen. In 1904, Baring took a position as war correspondent with the Morning Post and covered the Russo-Japanese War. His memories from this time were published in 1905, With the Russians in Manchuria. Baring joined The Times in 1912 as a special correspondent and served in the Balkans. At the outbreak of the First World War, Baring joined the Royal Flying Corps and by 1918 had been made a staff officer in the Royal Air Force. After the war, he began to publish some excellent novels which included Passing By (1921), The Puppet Show of Memory (1922), his autobiographical work, C (1924), Cat's Cradle (1925), Daphne Adeane (1926) and Robert Peckham (1930). By the early 1940's, Baring was suffering from Parkinson's disease and moved to Scotland where he was tended to by friends until his death in 1945. |
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