Passing By (Esprios Classics)

Maurice Baring OBE (27 April 1874 - 14 December 1945) was an English man of letters known as a dramatist poet novelist translator and essayist and also as a travel writer and war correspondent with particular knowledge of Russia. During World War I Baring served in the Intelligence Corps and Royal Air Force. Born in Mayfair he was educated at Eton College and Trinity College Cambridge. After an abortive start of a diplomatic career he travelled widely particularly in Russia where he lived in 1905-06. He reported as an eye-witness of the Russo-Japanese War for the London Morning Post. On returning to London he lived at North Cottage 6 North Street Westminster.