Meanwhile, he wrote regularly for newspapers and journals and from 1928 to 1931 edited Foreign Affairs . But he did not confine his activity to the writing desk. He was knighted for public service in 1931. Angell was a slightly built man, about five feet tall, ascetic of countenance, patient and courteous in manner. A lifelong bachelor, he died at ninety-four in a home for the aged in Croydon, Surrey.
Sources differ on birth date.
The one used here has been confirmed by Eric A. Lane, Angell's nephew, and is the one inscribed on a memorial stone at Holbeach. London, Hamish Hamilton, 1951. A Plea for American Leadership in International Organization . New York and London, Putnam, 1915. New York and London, Harper, 1940.