Gilbert Keith Chesterton was born in Campden Hill Kensington on May 29th 1874. <p><p>Originally after attending St Pauls School he went to Slade to learn the art of illustration. In 1896 he joined a small London publisher and began his journalistic career as a freelance art and literary critic and going on to writing weekly columns in the Daily News and the Illustrated London News. <p><p>In 1901 he married Frances Blogg to whom he remained married for the rest of his life. <p><p>For many he is known as a very fine novelist and the creator of the Father Brown Detective stories which were much influenced by his own beliefs. A large man - 6’ 4” and 21st in weight he was apt to be forgetful in that delightful way that the British sometimes are - a telegram home to his wife saying he was in one place but where should he actually be…….? <p><p>He was prolific in many other areas; he wrote plays short stories essays loved to debate and wrote hundreds of poems. <p><p>G K Chesterton died of congestive heart failure on 14th June 1936 and is buried in Beaconsfield just outside of London.<p>