Biography
Henry Ware Eliot Jr was T S Eliot's older brother.
>Eliot’s elder brother went to school at Smith Academy, and then passed two years at Washington University, St Louis, before progressing to Harvard. At Harvard, he displayed a gift for light verse in *Harvard Celebrities* (1901), illustrated with ‘Caricatures and Decorative Drawings’ by two fellow undergraduates. After graduating, he spent a year at law school, but subsequently followed a career in printing, publishing and advertising. He attained a partnership in Husband & Thomas (later the Buchen Company), a Chicago advertising agency, from 1917 to 1929, during which time he regularly advised Eliot on investments and provided financial assistance. In the early years, while Eliot’s poetry earned a pittance, and his salary at Lloyds and later at Faber & Gwyer did not always meet the upkeep of a household and a sick wife’s medical bills, Eliot depended on his brother’s benefactions. Henry accompanied their mother on her visit to London in the summer of 1921, his first trip away from the USA.
>In February 1926, at the age of forty-five, Henry married Theresa Anne Garrett (1884–1981), and later the same year the couple went on holiday to Italy along with Eliot and his wife Vivien. In 1932 he published his only detective novel, *The Rumble Murders*, under the pseudonym Mason Deal.
>Late in life that he found his true calling, as a Research Fellow in Near Eastern Archaeology at the Peabody Museum, Harvard, where his principal publication was a discussion of the prehistoric chronology of Northern Mesopotamia, together with a description of the pottery from Kudish Saghir (1939): see too his posthumous publication *Excavations in Mesopotamia and Western Iran: Sites of 4000 – 500 B.C.: Graphic Analyses* (Harvard University: Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology, 1950).
>Eliot’s elder brother went to school at Smith Academy, and then passed two years at Washington University, St Louis, before progressing to Harvard. At Harvard, he displayed a gift for light verse in *Harvard Celebrities* (1901), illustrated with ‘Caricatures and Decorative Drawings’ by two fellow undergraduates. After graduating, he spent a year at law school, but subsequently followed a career in printing, publishing and advertising. He attained a partnership in Husband & Thomas (later the Buchen Company), a Chicago advertising agency, from 1917 to 1929, during which time he regularly advised Eliot on investments and provided financial assistance. In the early years, while Eliot’s poetry earned a pittance, and his salary at Lloyds and later at Faber & Gwyer did not always meet the upkeep of a household and a sick wife’s medical bills, Eliot depended on his brother’s benefactions. Henry accompanied their mother on her visit to London in the summer of 1921, his first trip away from the USA.
>In February 1926, at the age of forty-five, Henry married Theresa Anne Garrett (1884–1981), and later the same year the couple went on holiday to Italy along with Eliot and his wife Vivien. In 1932 he published his only detective novel, *The Rumble Murders*, under the pseudonym Mason Deal.
>Late in life that he found his true calling, as a Research Fellow in Near Eastern Archaeology at the Peabody Museum, Harvard, where his principal publication was a discussion of the prehistoric chronology of Northern Mesopotamia, together with a description of the pottery from Kudish Saghir (1939): see too his posthumous publication *Excavations in Mesopotamia and Western Iran: Sites of 4000 – 500 B.C.: Graphic Analyses* (Harvard University: Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology, 1950).
