He was powerfully built, with great stamina, and walked extensively in Britain and Europe. The young widow then brought her son Hilaire, along with his sister, Marie, back to England where he remained, except for his voluntary enlistment as a young man in the French artillery.Īfter being educated at John Henry Newman's Oratory School Belloc served his term of military service, as a French citizen, with an artillery regiment near Toul in 1891. In 1872, five years after they wed, Louis died, but not before being wiped out financially in a stock market crash. In 1867 she married attorney Louis Belloc, son of the French painter Jean-Hilaire Belloc. His mother Elizabeth Rayner Parkes (1829–1925) was also a writer, and a great-granddaughter of the English chemist Joseph Priestley. This is evidenced in poems such as, "West Sussex Drinking Song", "The South Country", and even the more melancholy, "Ha'nacker Hill". Much of his boyhood was spent in Slindon, West Sussex, for which he often felt homesick in later life. Wilson and Joseph Pearce.īelloc was born in La Celle-Saint-Cloud, France (next to Versailles and near Paris) to a French father and English mother, and grew up in England. Recent biographies of Belloc have been written by A. Among his best-remembered poems are Jim, who ran away from his nurse, and was eaten by a lion and Matilda, who told lies and was burnt to death. His most lasting legacy is probably his verse, which encompasses cautionary tales and religious poetry. He was a noted disputant, with a number of long-running feuds, but also widely regarded as a humane and sympathetic man.
He was President of the Oxford Union and later MP for Salford from 1906 to 1910. He is most notable for his Catholic faith, which had a strong impact on most of his works and his writing collaboration with G. He was known as a writer, orator, poet, satirist, man of letters and political activist. He was one of the most prolific writers in England during the early twentieth century. Joseph Hilaire Pierre René Belloc was an Anglo-French writer and historian who became a naturalised British subject in 1902.
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