Cecil Chesterton

Cecil Chesterton was an journalist and editor, perhaps best known as the younger brother of Gilbert Keith Chesterton, who is rumored to have said, upon Cecil’s birth, “now I shall always have an audience.” He was praised by English writer and journalist J. C. Squire: “there was no better arguer, no abler journalist, in England.” He was associated with the Fabian Society for a time, and later (1907–1911) worked almost exclusively for The New Age where he was a regular and important contributor. In 1911 he became assistant editor on Hilaire Belloc’s new weekly, The Eye-Witness, and, when it folded in 1912, he bought the paper and renamed it the New Witness, which he edited until he went off to war. He was wounded three times and died in December 1918 in a military hospital in Paris. His books include Gladstonian Ghosts, G. K. Chesterton: A Criticism, and A History of the United States.