Norman Angell
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| Born |
Ralph Norman Angell Lane 26 December 1872 Holbeach, England |
| Died | 7 October 1967 (aged 94) Croydon, Surrey, England |
| Nationality | British |
| Occupation | lecturer, journalist, author, politician |
| Known for | Nobel Peace Prize (1933) |
Sir Ralph Norman Angell (26 December 1872 – 7 October 1967) was an English lecturer, journalist, author, and Member of Parliament for the Labour Party.
Angell was one of the principal founders of the Union of Democratic Control. He served on the Council of the Royal Institute of International Affairs, was an executive for the World Committee against War and Fascism, a member of the executive committee of the League of Nations Union, and the president of the Abyssinia Association. He was knighted in 1931 and awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1933.
Angell was one of six children, born to Thomas Angell Lane and Mary (née Brittain) Lane in Holbeach, Lincolnshire, England. He was born Ralph Norman Angell Lane, but later adopted Angell as his sole surname. He attended several schools in England, the Lycée de St Omer in France, and the University of Geneva, while editing an English-language newspaper published in Geneva.
In Geneva, Angell felt that Europe was "hopelessly entangled in insoluble problems". Then, still only 17, he took the bold decision to emigrate to the West Coast of the United States, where he for several years worked as a vine planter, an irrigation-ditch digger, a cowboy, a California homesteader (after filing for American citizenship), a mail-carrier for his neighbourhood, a prospector, and then, closer to his natural skills, as a reporter for the St. Louis Globe-Democrat and later the San Francisco Chronicle.
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