Edward Marsh
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Sir Edward Howard Marsh (November 18, 1872 – January 13, 1953) was a British polymath, the sponsor of the Georgian school of poets and a friend to many individuals, including Rupert Brooke and Siegfried Sassoon. A classical scholar and translator, he edited five anthologies of Georgian Poetry between 1912 and 1922, and he became Brooke's literary executor, editing the latter's Collected Poems in 1918. He was also a prominent collector of works by avant-garde English artists, including Mark Gertler, Duncan Grant, David Bomberg and Paul Nash.
In 1905, Winston Churchill hired him as his private secretary. Churchill's mother, always concerned about her son’s political career, was concerned because Marsh was a very well known homosexual who later became one of Winston’s most intimate lifelong friends. Personal correspondence of Marsh, now in private hands, attests to the nature and duration of their friendship.[1] Marsh tried to help Sassoon by introducing the two men. He was also a close friend of Ivor Novello's. In 1939, he produced A Number of People, a memoir of his life and times containing his memories of those writers and politicians with whom he had associated.
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- Eddie Marsh — Sketches for a Composite Literary Portrait (1953)
- Edward Marsh by Christopher Hassall (1959)
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