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	Marsh edited five anthologies of ''Georgian Poetry'' between 1912 and 1922, and became [[Rupert Brooke]]'s literary executor, and edited Brooke's ''Collected Poems'' (1918).		Marsh edited five anthologies of ''Georgian Poetry'' between 1912 and 1922, and became [[Rupert Brooke]]'s literary executor, and edited Brooke's ''Collected Poems'' (1918).

	:"[Rupert Brooke's] best friend at the end of his life was Edward Marsh, who was as much in love with him as [James] [[James Strachey\|Strachey]] had been."<ref>Keith Hale, ''Brooke, Rupert'', in Claude J Summers (Ed.) ''The Gay and Lesbian Literary Heritage'', Routledge, 2013</ref>		:"[Rupert Brooke's] best friend at the end of his life was Edward Marsh, who was as much in love with him as [James] [[James Beaumont Strachey\|Strachey]] had been."<ref>Keith Hale, ''Brooke, Rupert'', in Claude J Summers (Ed.) ''The Gay and Lesbian Literary Heritage'', Routledge, 2013</ref>

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[[File:ChurchillMarshAfrica0004.jpg|thumb|Edward Marsh (standing) together with Winston Churchill during an African journey in 1907]]'''Sir Edward Marsh''' (1872– 1953) was a poet and civil servant, who served as Private Secretary to [[Sir Winston Churchill]].

Marsh's father was Howard Marsh, a surgeon and later Master of Downing College, [[Cambridge]]. His mother was a granddaughter of the prime minister Spencer Perceval. He was educated at [[Westminster School]] and [[Trinity College, Cambridge]],<ref name="Janus">http://janus.lib.cam.ac.uk/db/node.xsp?id=EAD%2FGBR%2F0014%2FEMAR "The Papers of Sir Edward Mars", ''Janus''. Cambridge University.</ref> where he studied and was a member of the [[Apostles]].

In 1905 he became Private Secretary to Winston Churchill (then Under-Secretary for the Colonies). He continued as Churchill's Private Secretary from then until 1929, in different government departments, except when Churchill was out of office. He received a knighthood on his retirement in 1937.

Marsh edited five anthologies of ''Georgian Poetry'' between 1912 and 1922, and became [[Rupert Brooke]]'s literary executor, and edited Brooke's ''Collected Poems'' (1918).

:"[Rupert Brooke's] best friend at the end of his life was Edward Marsh, who was as much in love with him as [James] [[James Strachey|Strachey]] had been."<ref>Keith Hale, ''Brooke, Rupert'', in Claude J Summers (Ed.) ''The Gay and Lesbian Literary Heritage'', Routledge, 2013</ref>

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