SOURCE: “Eddie Marsh,” in The Spectator, No. 6490, November 14, 1952, pp. 623-24.

In the following essay, Pope-Hennessy praises Marsh's career achievements, contending that his name “is amongst the most eminent that his generation can boast.”

The name of Sir Edward Marsh, whose eightieth birthday falls within the coming week, is not one to conjure with in the newspapers. It may never “make the headlines.” But in the more secluded sphere of English art and letters it is amongst the most eminent that his generation can boast. He has won for himself a position of great distinction in the eyes of his contemporaries, and we may safely conjecture that his reputation will prove more lasting than that of some of the ephemerally famous political chiefs whom he punctiliously served during forty-odd years of Civil Service life. How many—or more correctly how few?—among present-day English writers and painters do not...