Editing Edward Marsh (polymath) (section)

==Civil servant==
[[Image:ChurchillMarshAfrica0004.jpg|right|200px|thumb|Edward Marsh (standing) together with Winston Churchill during an African journey in 1907.]]

In 1896 he was appointed Assistant Private Secretary to [[Joseph Chamberlain]], the [[Secretary of State for the Colonies|Colonial Secretary]]. When Chamberlain resigned in 1903, Marsh became Private Secretary to his successor, [[Alfred Lyttelton]]. When [[Winston Churchill]] became [[Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies]] in 1905 during [[Henry Campbell-Bannerman]]'s first Government, Marsh became Churchill's Private Secretary, beginning an association and friendship that would last until Marsh's death. Marsh would be Churchill's Private Secretary for the next ten years, until Churchill left the Government in 1915. As [[Randolph Churchill]], Winston's son put it, from December 1905, "Marsh was to accompany Churchill to every Government department he occupied: to the [[Board of Trade]], the [[Home Office]], [[the Admiralty]], the [[Duchy of Lancaster]], the [[Minister of Munitions|Ministry of Munitions]], the [[War Office]], back to his original [[Colonial Office]] and the [[Treasury]]."<ref>Churchill, Randolph. ''Winston S. Churchill: Young Statesman 1901–1914''. (c) 1967 C&T Publications, Ltd.: p. 110</ref> The moves were somewhat irregular as Marsh remained, until 1937, officially a clerk at the Colonial Office, but many exceptions were made, possibly at a cost to Marsh's official advancement.

When Churchill left government for the first time in 1915, Marsh became Assistant Private Secretary to Prime Minister [[H. H. Asquith]] in which position he served until the fall of Asquith's government in December 1916. When Churchill returned to government as Minister of Munitions in 1916, Marsh joined him there as Private Secretary and worked in that position through successive departments until the fall of [[David Lloyd George]]'s Coalition Government in 1922. When Churchill became [[Chancellor of the Exchequer]] in 1924, Marsh joined him there as Private Secretary and remained at the Treasury until the fall of [[Stanley Baldwin]]'s second government in 1929, when Marsh was returned to work at the Colonial Office. He then served as Private Secretary to every Secretary of State for the Colonies from 1929 until his retirement in 1937. Marsh was knighted upon his retirement and became Sir Edward Marsh.