Background
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.
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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.
Ralph Norman Angell was educated first privately and later 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.
After a year of study at the University of Geneva, he traveled to the United States, where he worked as a cowboy rancher and prospector in the West.
Due to family matters Ralph Norman Angell returned to England briefly in 1898, then moved to Paris to work as a sub-editor on the English language Daily Messenger, and then as a staff contributor to the newspaper Éclair. He also through this period acted as French correspondent for some American newspapers, to which he sent dispatches on the progress of the Dreyfus case. During 1905–12, he became the Paris editor for the Daily Mail.
He returned to England and, in 1914, he was one of the founders of the Union of Democratic Control. He joined the Labour Party in 1920 and was MP for Bradford North from 1929 to 1931. In 1931 he was knighted for his public service, and later in 1933 he was presented with the Nobel Peace Prize.
From the mid-1930s, Angell actively campaigned for collective international opposition to the aggressive policies of Germany, Italy, and Japan. He went to the United States in 1940 to lecture in favour of American support for Britain in World War II, and remained there until after the publication of his autobiography in 1951. He later returned to Britain and died at the age of 94 in Croydon, Surrey.
In 1929 Ralph Norman Angell was elected to Parliament from North Bradford as a Labour Party candidate.
During World War I, Norman Angell was one of the founders of the Union of Democratic Control, which demanded a workable peace and open diplomacy.
Most of Angell's career was dedicated to the promotion of international peace.
Ralph Norman Angell was married to Beatrice, they had one daughter