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Eton College.
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Patrick Shaw-Stewart
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He is best remembered today for his poem Achilles in the Trench, one of the best-known war poems of the First World War. His career was one of great academic brilliance, matched by a steely determination to succeed. Elected to a fellowship of All Souls, he instead committed his career to Barings Bank, where he was appointed one of the youngest managing directors in the bank"s history, in 1913.
When war was declared in 1914, he joined the Royal Navy, serving with Rupert Brooke.
Shaw-Stewart was shaken by his prominent role in the young poet"s funeral in Greece:
"The brilliant and beguiling youth who had never failed in anything, for whom all life"s prizes seemed to wait his taking, had little wish to outlive his friends. He now used all his charm and influence in high places to get into the firing line."
Promoted to lieutenant commander and in temporary command of the Hood Battalion, he was killed on 30 December 1917.
He is buried at Metz-en-Couture in the British extension to the communal cemetery. The first biography of Shaw-Stewart, by Ronald Knox, was published in 1920.
Elizabeth Vandiver"s Stand in the Trench, Achilles includes a detailed discussion of Shaw-Stewart.
A new biography by Miles Jebb was published in May 2010.
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At this time he became devoted to Lady Diana Manners and became a leading member of her "corrupt coterie," known simply as the Coterie.
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December 30, 1917 (aged 29)