Joseph Hilaire Pierre René Belloc was born in La Celle-Saint-Cloud, France, the son of a French father, who was an attorney, and an English mother, who was an author. In 1872, his father died in 1872, leaving the family destitute, and his mother moved with Belloc to Slindon, West Sussex, where he spent most of his childhood. He was educated at John Henry Newman's Oratory School in Edgbaston, Birmingham, and then volunteered to serve in the French Army. He was posted in an artillery regiment near Toul in 1891. After his release from the military, he studied history at Oxford University, graduating in 1895. In 1896, he married Elodie Hogan, an American, and published his first book, a book of poetry called Verses and Sonnets. In 1906 he and his family moved to Shipley, West Sussex, where he lived until just before he died. He went into politics, and was a Liberal Party Member of Parliament for Salford South from 1906-1910. In 1914, the year his wife Elodie died of influenza, he took a position as edited of the war journal Land and Water, where he stayed until 1920. In 1918, his son Louis was killed while serving in the Royal Flying Corps in France. Belloc suffered a stroke in 1941, from which he never recovered.
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Hilaire Belloc (1870-1953), H. G. Wells (1866-1946), Thomas Cranmer (1489-1556), Elizabeth I Queen of England (1533-1603), Napoleon I Emperor of the French (1769-1821), Charles I King of England (1600-1649), Charles II King of England (1630-1685), G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936), Joan of Arc, Saint (1412-1431), John Churchill Marlborough Duke of (1650-1722), Louis XIV King of France (1638-1715), Oliver Cromwell (1599-1658), B. T. B. (1870-1917), Francisco Ferrer Guardia (1859-1909), Georges Jacques Danton, James II King of England (1633-1701), John Milton (1608-1674), Joseph Chamberlain (1836-1914), Thomas Wolsey (1475?-1530), Armand Jean du Plessis Richelieu duc de (1585-1642), Arthur James Balfour Balfour Earl of (1848-1930), Arthur Joseph Penty (1875-1937), Benito Mussolini (1883-1945), Blaise Pascal (1623-1662), C. A. Vince (b. 1855)Time
20th century, Revolution, 1789-1799, 16th century, Tudors, 1485-1603, 1789-1815, Charles I, 1625-1649, Charles II, 1660-1685, 18th century, 1901-1910, 1918-1945, Consulate and First Empire, 1799-1815, Revolution, 1485-1603, 1660-1714, 1789-1793, 17th century, 1886-1931, 1910-1936, 1918-, 843-1517, Elizabeth, 1558-1603, George V, 1910-1936, James II, 1685-1688, Louis XIII, 1610-1643, Louis XVI, 1774-1793ID Numbers
- OLID: OL266207A
- ISNI: 0000000121348776
- VIAF: 59113521
- Wikidata: Q333106
- Inventaire.io: wd:Q333106
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- Joseph Hilaire Pierre René Belloc
- Hilaire Pierre Belloc
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