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Charles Edward Montague Biography

• Charles Edward Montague (January 1, 1867 - May 28, 1928) was an English journalist, novel and essay writer.
• Born and brought up in London, he is the son of an Irish Roman Catholic priest who had left the church to marry and was educated at the City of London School and Balliol College, Oxford. In 1890, he was recruited by C.P. Scott to the Manchester Guardian, wherehe became a notedleader writer and critic while Scott was an M.P. in 1895-1906, he was de facto editor of the paper. Charles married Madeline, Scott's daughther  in 1898.
• Montague was against the First World War before it even started, but when it did, 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 be enlisted, he dyed his white hair black and fooled the Army into accepting him. He began as a grenadier-sergeant, and rose to lieutenant and then captain of intellegence in 1915. Later in the war, he became an armed escort for VIPs visiting the battlefield, like H.G. Wells and Bernard Shaw. He wrote a strong anti-war vein after the war, he wrote," War hath no fury like a non-combatant". One of the first prose works that strongly crticise the way the war was fought and is pivotal in the development of literature about the First World Ward was Disenchantment in 1922.
• He returned to the Guardian, but felt that his role was diminishing as the years passed. He finally retired in 1925 and settled down to become a full-time writer in the last years of his life. His works would novels such as A hind Let Loose in 1904, The Morning's War in 1913 and Rough Justice in 1926; short stories like Fiery Particles in 1923 and Action in 1928; A science fiction Right Off the Map and A Writer's notes on His trade.
• He died in 1928 at the age of 61, he was the father of Evelyn Aubrey Montague, the Olympic athlete and journalist in the 1981 film Chariots of Fire.

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