![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() 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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