Author: Ronald Gorell Barnes
Alternate names: Barnes, Ronald Gorell; Barnes, Ronald Gorell (3rd baron Gorell); Barnes, Ronald Gorell (Baron Gorell); Baron Ronald Gorell Barnes Gorell; Gorell (Lord); Gorell, Ronald Gorell Barnes (Baron); Gorell, Ronald Gorell Barnes (Lord); Lord Gorell; Ronald Gorell Barnes, Baron Gorell; Ronald Barnes, 3rd Baron Gorell; Ronald Gorell Barnes, Baron; Ronald Gorell Barnes Gorell; Ronald Gorell Barnes Baron Gorell; Gorell Ronald Gorell Barnes; Ronald Barnes; Gorell, Ronald Gorell Barnes Baron; Colonel Lord Gorell; R. Gorell Barnes
Title: Baron
Born: 1884
Died: 1963
Bio: Lord Gorell was born Ronald Gorell Barnes in 1884, the second son of the first baron Gorell. Both Ronald and his elder brother, Henry, served in the First World War; Ronald earned the Military Cross whilst his brother was killed at Ypres in 1917, elevating Ronald to the third baron Gorell.
As well as performing his duties as a British peer, he was a journalist for *The Times*, a longtime editor of the *Cornhill Magazine*, and played thirteen seasons with the Marylebone Cricket Club. He also occasionally wrote crime fiction -- his first, *In the Night*, was published in 1917, his last, *Murder at Manor House*, in 1954. Lord Gorell was also co-president of the Detection Club with Agatha Christie from 1956 until his death in 1963.