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A prominent civil servant and private secretary to Sir Winston Churchill for 23 years, Edward Marsh was also a scholar and patron of the arts who supported many young artists and writers with money and advice. He is best known as the editor of the influential anthology ‘Georgian Poetry’ (1912-22), which brought many of his proteges to public attention. He also edited the collected poems of Rupert Brooke (1918). While D.H.Lawrence was staying in Kingsgate in July 1913, Marsh sent him his share of the royalties of the first volume of ‘Georgian Poetry’. In gratitude, Lawrence urged him to visit them. Coincidentally, Marsh was due to visit his friends the Asquiths, who were also staying in Kingsgate, and on 20th July he took him along to tea with them, initiating a friendship that would last Lawrence’s whole life.
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| Kingsgate | A prominent civil servant and private secretary to Sir Winston Churchill for 23 years, Edward Marsh was also a scholar and patron of the arts who supported many young artists and writers with money and advice... |
