Edward Marsh

Sir Edward Howard Marsh (November 18, 1872-January 13, 1953) was an English 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.

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November 18 - 1872 - January 13 - 1953 - Polymath - Georgian - Rupert Brooke - Siegfried Sassoon - Literary executor

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During the First World War, he was personal secretary to Winston Churchill, and tried to help Sassoon by introducing the two men. 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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First World War - Winston Churchill - 1939

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