95. CAMMAERTS, Emile. MESSINES & OTHER POEMS. 1918.
Bookplate. Name on front end paper. £12.00



Émile Cammaerts
Belgian poet and writer

born March 16, 1878, Brussels, Belg. died Nov. 2, 1953, Radlett, Hertfordshire, Eng.
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Émile Leon Cammaerts (March 16, 1878 in Brussels, Belgium – November 2, 1953 in Radlett, Hertfordshire, England) was a Belgian poet.

Cammaerts moved to England in 1908. Aside from his own writings, he engaged in translations of John Ruskin and G. K. Chesterton. His most important work was his 1935 biography of King Albert.

He became Professor of Belgian Studies at the University of London in 1933, and his papers are held there in Senate House Library.

He married the theatrical actress Tita Brand (daughter of the singer Marie Brema), with whom he had six children, one of them Francis Cammaerts.