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Authority record- CA QUA10607
- Person
- 18 Nov. 1872-13 Jan. 1953
Sir Edward Howard Marsh KCVO CB CMG, was a British polymath, translator, arts patron and civil servant. He was the sponsor of the Georgian school of poets and a friend to many poets, including Rupert Brooke and Siegfried Sassoon. In his career as a civil servant he worked as Private Secretary to a succession of the United Kingdom's most powerful ministers, particularly Winston Churchill. He was a discreet but influential figure within Britain's homosexual community.
- CA QUA09663
- Person
- 1886-
Guthbert Marrison was a photographer who worked out the Henderson Studio at 92 Princess Street in Kingston, Ontario.
- CA QUA09662
- Corporate body
- fl. 1930s
Marrison Studio was a photography studio based in Kingston, Ontario
- CA QUA01863
- Person
- 1864-1936
Thomas Guthrie Marquis (1864-1936), author and editor, was born in Chatham, New Brunswick on 4 July 1864. He graduated from Queen's University, Kingston in 1889 with a B.A. and taught school until 1901. He became a free-lance journalist, writer of history and historical biographies and an editor. He edited Builders of Canada from Cartier to Laurier (Toronto 1903) and collaborated with Agnes Maule Machar in Stories of New France (1890). As T.G.M., Mr. Marquis was a well known reviewer of books for Saturday Night and The Canadian Bookman. He died in Toronto 1 April 1936, survived by his wife Alice.