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Charles Edward Montague was born at London Borough of Ealing on January 1, 1867, of Irish parents.
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Charles Edward Montague, (1 January 1867 28 May 1928), was an English journalist, known also as a writer of novels and essays.Montague was born and brought up in London, the son of an Irish Roman Catholic priest who had left the church to marry. He was educated at the City of London School and Balliol College, Oxford.1 At Oxford he gained a First in Classical Moderations (1887) and a Second in Literae Humaniores (1889). In 1890 he was recruited by C. P. Scott to the Manchester Guardian, where he became a noted leader writer and critic; while Scott was an M.P. between 1895-1906 he was de facto editor of the paper. He married Scott's daughter Madeline in 1898. While working at the paper, Montague became a supporter of Irish Home Rule. Montague was against the First World War prior to its commencement, but once it started he believed that it was right to support it in the hope of a swift resolution. In 1914, Montague was 47, which was well over the age for enlistment. But in order to enlist, he dyed his white hair black to enable him to fool the Army into accepting him. H. W. Nevinson would later write that "Montague is the only man I know whose white hair in a single night turned dark through courage." He began as a grenadier-sergeant, and rose to lieutenant and then captain of intelligence in 1915. Later in the war, he became an armed escort for VIPs visiting the battlefield. He escorted such personalities as H.G. Wells and Bernard Shaw. After the end of World War I he wrote in a strong anti-war vein. He wrote that "War hath no fury like a non-combatant." Disenchantment (1922), a collection of newspaper articles about the war,1 was one of the first prose works to strongly criticise the way the war was fought, and is a pivotal text in the development of literature about the First World War.34 Disenchantment criticised the British Press' coverage of the war and the conduct of the British generals. Montague accused the latter of being influenced by the "public school ethos" which he condemned as a "gallant robust contempt for "swats" and for all who invented new means to new ends and who trained and used their brains with a will
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(Charles Edward Montague, (1 January 1867 28 May 1928), ...)
Charles Edward Montague, (1 January 1867 28 May 1928), was an English journalist, known also as a writer of novels and essays.Montague was born and brought up in London, the son of an Irish Roman Catholic priest who had left the church to marry. He was educated at the City of London School and Balliol College, Oxford.1 At Oxford he gained a First in Classical Moderations (1887) and a Second in Literae Humaniores (1889). In 1890 he was recruited by C. P. Scott to the Manchester Guardian, where he became a noted leader writer and critic; while Scott was an M.P. between 1895-1906 he was de facto editor of the paper. He married Scott's daughter Madeline in 1898. While working at the paper, Montague became a supporter of Irish Home Rule. Montague was against the First World War prior to its commencement, but once it started he believed that it was right to support it in the hope of a swift resolution. In 1914, Montague was 47, which was well over the age for enlistment. But in order to enlist, he dyed his white hair black to enable him to fool the Army into accepting him. H. W. Nevinson would later write that "Montague is the only man I know whose white hair in a single night turned dark through courage." He began as a grenadier-sergeant, and rose to lieutenant and then captain of intelligence in 1915. Later in the war, he became an armed escort for VIPs visiting the battlefield. He escorted such personalities as H.G. Wells and Bernard Shaw. After the end of World War I he wrote in a strong anti-war vein. He wrote that "War hath no fury like a non-combatant." Disenchantment (1922), a collection of newspaper articles about the war,1 was one of the first prose works to strongly criticise the way the war was fought, and is a pivotal text in the development of literature about the First World War.34 Disenchantment criticised the British Press' coverage of the war and the conduct of the British generals. Montague accused the latter of being influenced by the "public school ethos" which he condemned as a "gallant robust contempt for "swats" and for all who invented new means to new ends and who trained and used their brains with a will
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Charles Edward Montague was born at London Borough of Ealing on January 1, 1867, of Irish parents.
Montague was educated at Balliol College, Oxford.
He became associated in 1890 with the Manchester Guardian, and with the exception of the period of World War I, acted as its chief editorial writer from 1898 to 1925.
Before 1914 Montague published two volumes of dramatic criticism and two novels. In 1914 he enlisted in the army, having dyed his hair to conceal his age; he was commissioned in 1916 and served throughout World War I.
Montague showed the war's effect in his antimilitaristic works, Disenchantment (1922), Fiery Particles (1923), Rough Justice (1926), and Right off the Map (1927). Though an estimable writer of fiction, Montague was at his best as an essayist.
(Charles Edward Montague, (1 January 1867 28 May 1928), ...)
(Charles Edward Montague, (1 January 1867 28 May 1928), ...)
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