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3 unusual facts about Gilbert Spencer


Gilbert Spencer

Gilbert married Margaret Ursula Bradshaw (1898–1959) on 31 December 1930 at Holy Trinity church, Prince Consort Road, London.

Lady Ottoline Morrell

whilst Gilbert Spencer lived for a while in a house on the Garsington estate.

Her patronage was influential in artistic and intellectual circles, where she befriended writers including Aldous Huxley, Siegfried Sassoon, T. S. Eliot and D. H. Lawrence, and artists including Mark Gertler, Dora Carrington and Gilbert Spencer.


Beaufort Hospital

Gilbert Spencer (Stanley Spencer's younger brother who also served as a medical orderly) recalled his first terrifying moments at Beaufort when he was surrounded by a 'ward full of wounded Gallipoli soldiers, their skins sunburnt and their clothes bleached and the soil of Suvla Bay still on their boots.' (1)


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