Michael Sadleir

[4][5] Sadleir was initially taught by Eva Gilpin in Ilkley[6] before he was educated at Rugby School and was a contemporary of Rupert Brooke, with whom he was romantically involved, and Geoffrey Keynes.

[7] Sadleir then attended Balliol College, Oxford, where he read history and won the 1912 Stanhope essay prize on the political career of Richard Brinsley Sheridan.

[8] Before the First World War, Sadleir and his father were keen collectors of art,[9] and purchased works by young English artists such as Stanley Spencer and Mark Gertler.

[15] Extracts from it were published in the Vorticist literary magazine BLAST in 1914,[16] and it remained one of the most influential art texts of the first decades of the twentieth century.

[19] After the end of World War I, he served as a British delegate to the Paris Peace Conference, 1919, and worked at the secretariat of the newly formed League of Nations.

Sadleir lived at Througham Court, Bisley, in Gloucestershire, a fine Jacobean farmhouse altered for him by the architect Norman Jewson, c.