OBITUARY

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22025, 4 February 1935, Page 9

OBITUARY

MR. Ei. GEORGE MARKS AUTHOR AND JOURNALIST (Recisirod February 3. 5.5 p.-m.) SYDNEY, Feb. 3 The death has occurred of a wellknown Sydney author and journalist. Mr. E. George Marks. He was chief law reporter for the Sun. Death wf.s the result of a fall from a tramcar on Friday. Mr. Marks was aged 50. He was author of many articles on Napoleon. The late Mr. Marks was born in June, 188-1, at Braidwood, New South Wales, and was educated at St. Stanislaus College, Bathurst. He joined the literary sitsifT of the. Australian Star in 1903 and had been with the Sun since its inception in 1909, He lectured extensively on Napoleonic strategy and tactics and also on the Pacific. He claimed to have the best collection of Napoleonic literature and antiques outside Paris. His great-great-grand-uncle. General la Marque, was on Napoleon s staff. . Mr. Marks' publications include " Napoleon and the War," '• How Focli Makes War" (for which he received the congratulations of Marshal Focli and M. Poincare), " Merit and Democracy, ' " Watch the Pacific," "Dawn of the Capital" (national ode). " Remember the Sydney " (patriotic ode), and "Pacific Peril, Menace of Japan's Mandated Islands." He married in December, 1924, Linda, second daughter of the late Mr. Charles Leicester Wall is, one of the founders of Wmchcombct, Carson and Co., and a grand-niece of the late Sir • Daniel Cooper. >