J. B. Morton

A BBC radio programme Beachcomber by the Way based on the column was broadcast for 18 episodes from 1989 to 1994 with Richard Ingrams playing the voice of Beachcomber. Like Belloc Morton was a Roman Catholic and shared many of the attitudes of the Chesterton-Belloc circle. The battalion was disbanded in 1916 and Morton was commissioned in the Suffolk Regiment.

Morton (7 June 1893–10 May 1979) was an English humorous writer noted for authoring a column called By the Way under the pen name Beachcomber in the Daily Express from 1924 to 1975. John Cameron Andrieu Bingham Michael Morton better known by his preferred abbreviation J. This article is about the English humorist and columnist for other uses see John Morton (disambiguation).