[1] Later that same year, he worked on his father's campaign for Parliamentary re-election, after resignation over the issue, on a radical platform of women's suffrage at the Bow and Bromley by-election.

[2] He also supported Sylvia Pankhurst's East London Federation of Suffragettes, serving as Honorary Treasurer in 1915.

[1] After his first wife Minnie Lansbury died in 1922, he married actress Moyna Macgill and the two moved to Regent's Park.

Subsequent twin sons, Bruce and Edgar Jr (born 1930), later became prominent film and television producers and writers.

He was found to have contravened section 2 of the Official Secrets Act 1911, and fined; his book was recalled in order for the text to be censored.