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Poets & Pronunciation. Entering the Civil Service after Cambridge, Eddie Marsh soon became known as "the perfect private secretary," first to Joseph Chamberlain, later, in 1905, to Winston Churchill, then Under Secretary in the Colonial Office. Eddie knew all Britain's greats and near-greats, dashed from dinner to dinner drumming the names of his favorite artists into their ears. He followed Churchill to the Board of Trade, finally to the Admiralty, eventually won a knighthood in 1937 for his services...
...Chartwell country estate years ago, Winston Churchill was deploring a picture that Art Patron Eddie Marsh had persuaded Mrs. Churchill to buy. Said Painter Walter Sickert, who was visiting Churchill: "Our little friend Eddie is not without a certain idiot flair." Last week, four months after Edward Howard Marsh died at the age of 80, a London gallery displayed the pick of the pictures he had collected for himself over the years, and the critics came to a kinder conclusion: "A great midwife of the arts...
...bouncy, tireless man-about-town to the end, Eddie Marsh started collecting pictures at the turn of the century, kept at it with unmatched zeal until he died. He was not a wealthy man, but his mother had left him a modest annuity and he devoted...
During his lifetime, Eddie Marsh gave 100 works to London's Contemporary Art Society for distribution to needy museums; his will left 250 more to be split up among 80 museums in Britain and the Commonwealth. He never bought a foreign painting, always tried to encourage native artists, and seemed to like them...
Long before he died last January, his best epitaph had been inadvertently pronounced by Novelist Arnold Bennett, who was engaged in criticizing a play Eddie had thoroughly enjoyed. "Hang Eddie Marsh," grumped Bennett. "He's a miserable fellow-he enjoys everything...