Cecil Edward Chesterton (November 12, 1879 – December 6, 1918) was an English announcer and political commentator, accepted decidedly for his role as editor of The New Witness from 1912 to 1916, and in affiliation to its advantage of the Marconi scandal.
Saturday, 17 December 2011
Life
He was the adolescent brother of G. K. Chesterton, and a abutting accessory of Hilaire Belloc. While the account of distributism1 came from all three, and Arthur Penty, he was the best brainy and antagonistic by temperament. His death, according to his wife, removed the theorist of the movement.
He was built-in in Kensington, London, and accomplished at St Paul's School, and the Slade School of Art. In 1901 he abutting the Fabian Society,2 with which he was carefully complex for about six years. From 1907 he wrote for A. R. Orage's The New Age. In 1908 he appear an bearding adventures of his better-known brother, G. K. Chesterton, a Criticism, but his antecedent was bound discovered.
He had been one of the 'Anti-Puritan League' of the 1890s, with Stewart Headlam (who stood bond for Oscar Wilde), Edgar Jepson and his brother; and again a affiliate of Henry Holland's Christian Social Union. While Chesterton was autograph from a left-wing point of appearance for Orage, he was additionally affective to an Anglo-Catholic religious stance. In 1911 he started beat assignment for Belloc, with whom he wrote in The Affair System, a criticism of affair politics. In 1912 he formally became a Roman Catholic.
That aforementioned year he bought Belloc's declining account Eye-Witness, and renamed it The New Witness, alteration it for four years afore enlisting in the army, and axis it into a aspersion sheet. His assiduous attacks on arresting political abstracts complex in the Marconi aspersion (such as Lloyd George), and his accessible defence of his position in agreement of a 'Jewish problem', accept larboard him with a acceptability as an anti-Semite. He was auspiciously brought to cloister by Godfrey Isaacs, one of those attacked, although the amercement awarded were nominal. A government analysis appear that aerial government admiral had affianced in cabal trading in the banal of Marconi's American subsidiary, but the abundance of stocks they were accepted to accept purchased was almost small.
In 1916 he affiliated Ada Elizabeth Jones (1888-1962), afterwards accepted as a writer, afterwards a continued courtship. He abutting the Highland Ablaze Infantry as a clandestine soldier. Ada took over the paper, which was additionally accurate by G. K. Chesterton, and eventually in 1925 it was renamed G. K.'s Weekly.
He was three times blood-soaked angry in France, and died there in a hospital of nephritis on December 6, 1918. Although sick, he had banned to leave his column until the Armistice. On December 13, G. K. Chesterton would address his afterlife in the New Witness, acquainted that "He lived continued abundant to advance to the achievement which was for him a absolute eyes of alternative and the light."
He was built-in in Kensington, London, and accomplished at St Paul's School, and the Slade School of Art. In 1901 he abutting the Fabian Society,2 with which he was carefully complex for about six years. From 1907 he wrote for A. R. Orage's The New Age. In 1908 he appear an bearding adventures of his better-known brother, G. K. Chesterton, a Criticism, but his antecedent was bound discovered.
He had been one of the 'Anti-Puritan League' of the 1890s, with Stewart Headlam (who stood bond for Oscar Wilde), Edgar Jepson and his brother; and again a affiliate of Henry Holland's Christian Social Union. While Chesterton was autograph from a left-wing point of appearance for Orage, he was additionally affective to an Anglo-Catholic religious stance. In 1911 he started beat assignment for Belloc, with whom he wrote in The Affair System, a criticism of affair politics. In 1912 he formally became a Roman Catholic.
That aforementioned year he bought Belloc's declining account Eye-Witness, and renamed it The New Witness, alteration it for four years afore enlisting in the army, and axis it into a aspersion sheet. His assiduous attacks on arresting political abstracts complex in the Marconi aspersion (such as Lloyd George), and his accessible defence of his position in agreement of a 'Jewish problem', accept larboard him with a acceptability as an anti-Semite. He was auspiciously brought to cloister by Godfrey Isaacs, one of those attacked, although the amercement awarded were nominal. A government analysis appear that aerial government admiral had affianced in cabal trading in the banal of Marconi's American subsidiary, but the abundance of stocks they were accepted to accept purchased was almost small.
In 1916 he affiliated Ada Elizabeth Jones (1888-1962), afterwards accepted as a writer, afterwards a continued courtship. He abutting the Highland Ablaze Infantry as a clandestine soldier. Ada took over the paper, which was additionally accurate by G. K. Chesterton, and eventually in 1925 it was renamed G. K.'s Weekly.
He was three times blood-soaked angry in France, and died there in a hospital of nephritis on December 6, 1918. Although sick, he had banned to leave his column until the Armistice. On December 13, G. K. Chesterton would address his afterlife in the New Witness, acquainted that "He lived continued abundant to advance to the achievement which was for him a absolute eyes of alternative and the light."
Catholic conservative
"A young, active red-haired Yalie from Omaha", as he is declared in Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus, Bozell was the best acquaintance and debating association teammate3 of William F. Buckley, Jr. at Yale University, area he was President of the Yale Political Union and the campus World Federalists. Bozell accustomed to Yale as a New Dealer; Buckley adapted him to abnegation and was dissuaded from the alienation of his accomplishments by Bozell in return. The two became attached and were inseparable. They formed a best agitation duo for Yale, with Bozell alms affecting able statements and Buckley agreeable in the cut-and-thrust that Firing Line admirers would appear to apperceive well. During the summertime of 1949 the two spent the summertime in Saskatchewan alive for one of the Buckley oil companies; by the end of the summertime Bozell was affianced to Patricia Lee Buckley, who was visiting her acquaintance Pat Taylor in Vancouver, after to become William Buckley's wife. Meanwhile in the abatement of 1949 Oxford had beatific a able debating team, Robin Day and Anthony Wedgwood Benn, to booty on the Ivy League, with alarming success— until they came to Yale. Taking the abrogating ancillary on the affair "Resolved: the Americans should nationalize all their non-agricultural industries", Buckley and Bozell baffled the Oxford aggregation 3-0.
Works
Gladstonian Ghosts (1905)
G.K. Chesterton: a Criticism (1908)
Party and People (1910)
The Party System with Hilaire Belloc (1911)
The Story of Nell Gwyn (1911)
The Prussian hath said in his Heart (1914)
The Perils of Peace (1916)
A History of the United States (1919)
G.K. Chesterton: a Criticism (1908)
Party and People (1910)
The Party System with Hilaire Belloc (1911)
The Story of Nell Gwyn (1911)
The Prussian hath said in his Heart (1914)
The Perils of Peace (1916)
A History of the United States (1919)
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