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The book contain a section entitled war poems which seem to have been written by someone with expereince of the front line trenchs

Ronald Gorell Barnes, 3rd Baron Gorell (16 April 1884–2 May 1963), was a British peer, Liberal politician and newspaper editor.

Lord Gorell was the 3rd Baron Gorell, Ronald Gorell Barnes CBE, OBE, MC. He was on the editorial staff of The Times, 1910-1915. Capt and Adjutant of 7th Bn Rifle Brigade 1916. Major, General Staff 1918. Deputy Director of Staff Duties (Education) at the War Office, 1918-1920. He was also an author and poet, with several publications to his name.





Gorell was the second son of John Gorell Barnes, 1st Baron Gorell, a Judge of the High Court of Justice. He succeeded as third Baron Gorell in 1917 after his elder brother was killed in the First World War and took his seat on the Liberal benches in the House of Lords. In July 1921 he was appointed Under-Secretary of State for Air in the coalition government of David Lloyd George, an office he held until the government fell in October 1922. He was later Editor of the Cornhill Magazine from 1933 to 1939. He was co-President of the Detection Club with Agatha Christie from 1956 to 1963.

Lord Gorell married Maud Elizabeth Furse Radcliffe (1886-1954), eldest daughter of Alexander Nelson Radcliffe and Isabel Grace Henderson, in 1922. He died in May 1963, aged 77, and was succeeded in the barony by his eldest son Timothy John Radcliffe Barnes.