BARING, Maurice, English author and journalist: b. 27 April 1874. He was educated at Eton and at Trinity College, Cambridge. He entered the diplomatic service in 1898, was at tache to the British Embassy in Paris 1898 1900, third secretary to the British Embassy in Copenhagen 1900-02, and was transferred to Rome in 1902. He was employed in the For eign Office 1903-04, and resigned from the serv ice in the latter year. He acted as war cor respondent for the Morning Post in Manchuria in 1904, in Russia 1905-08, and was special cor respondent
the same journal in Constanti nople in 1909. In 1912 he was correspondent for the London Times in the Balkans, was gazetted temporary lieutenant in the British expeditionary force on the outbreak of the European War in 1914, and was promoted staff lieutenant in 1915. He has written novels, essays, narratives and poems, including
desheim and Quatre Pastiches' (1899) ;
Black Prince' (1902) ; (Gaston de Fob(' (1903) ; 'With the Russians in Manchuria' (1903) ;